Educational Psychology / Unit 7 EDP 0630 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Process, Not Content
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The idea
Self-efficacy explains the process of motivation, how belief sustains effort, but not its content: what a person wants to do.
In practice
A student can feel fully capable at algebra and still have no wish to study more of it.
Where people slip
That gap is why self-determination theory reintroduces needs, asking what students want and why.
Your place on the trail
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