Investigating the Relationships Among Students' Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Their Perceptions of Classroom Learning Environment, Gender, and Chemistry Achievement Through Structural Equation Modeling

Boz, YezdanYerdelen-Damar, SevdaAydemir, NurdaneAydemir, Murat2025-05-102025-05-1020160263-51431470-113810.1080/02635143.2016.11749312-s2.0-84965022958https://doi.org/10.1080/02635143.2016.1174931https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14720/15166Background: Investigating factors contributing to chemistry achievement is important since it enables us to make more concrete instructional decisions related to improving students? chemistry achievement.Purpose: This study aimed to investigate how students? perceptions of learning environment, self-efficacy and gender are related to chemistry achievement.Sample: Three hundred fifty six high school students with the age range of 14 and 19 from three different schools in the same district were the participants.Design and methods: A structural equation model was designed and tested. Constructivist learning environment survey, self-efficacy scale were the instruments of the study. Information about students? gender and their chemistry grades belonging to the previous semester were also collected.Results: The model testing showed that chemistry self-efficacy beliefs, students? perceptions of constructivist learning environment (through chemistry-self efficacy) and gender were significantly related to chemistry achievement. Moreover, the findings showed that students? chemistry self-efficacy beliefs mediated the relation of students? learning environment perceptions to their chemistry achievement.Conclusions: The present study has some educational implications for teachers, teacher educators and curriculum developers. First of all, self-efficacy was found to have an effect on students? achievement. Therefore, teachers should consider students? self-efficacy beliefs and devise their instruction accordingly. Another implication of this study is the necessity of considering gender differences in designing teachers? instruction.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessChemistry Self-EfficacyPerceptions Of Learning EnvironmentGender Structural Equation ModelingInvestigating the Relationships Among Students' Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Their Perceptions of Classroom Learning Environment, Gender, and Chemistry Achievement Through Structural Equation ModelingArticle343Q4Q1307324WOS:000386136100005