Academic self- efficacy and its relation to the cognitive biases among university students

Abstract

The current research aims to identify:

. 1Academic self-efficacy among university students.

. 2Significance of differences in academic self-efficacy according to variables

1. Sex (males, females)
2. Specialty (Scientific, Human)

. 3Cognitive biases among university students.

. 4Significance of differences in cognitive biases according to variables

1. Sex (males, females)
2. Specialty (Scientific, Human)

. 5The extent to which the areas of academic self-efficacy contribute to cognitive biases.

The current research sample consisted of (400) male and female students from the universities of Mustansiriya University with (200) males and (200) females, (200) of scientific specialization and (200) of human specialization. The reascher  develop  tow scales to achieve aims study : Academic self-efficacy   according to the definition of Pandura and the scale of DACOBS, which was translated by the researcher from the language to the Arabic language, and after extracting the Psychometric properties of both measurements through (face and structural validity and the power of discrimination) and extraction of the stability coefficient in the two methods of testing and retesting (0,873) (0,914), after applying the two parameters to the sample In the current research, the researcher found the following results.

1. There is academic self-efficacy among students.
2. There is cognitive biases among students.
3. The relationship between academic self-efficacy and cognitive biases among university student.
4. The difference in relationship between academic self-efficacy and cognitive biases according to : A. Gender (male , female) , B. Specialization ( humanistic, scientific) .

In the light of  the current study results , the researcher put forward several recommendations and proposals .