@article {1050,
	title = {PRIMARY STUDENTS{\textquoteright} PERFORMANCE OF STEM DOMAIN-SPECIFIC SELF-EFFICACY BELIEF AND EXPECTANCY-VALUE BELIEF},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {20},
	year = {2021},
	month = {August/2021},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {677-690},
	abstract = {Most studies have concentrated in assessing students{\textquoteright} overall attitudes towards science, mathematics, and engineering/technology or the attitude towards individual STEM domain. The present research aims to explore primary students{\textquoteright} gender and grade differences of their STEM domain-specific attitudes including self-efficacy and expectancy-value beliefs, as well as their correlations. The results showed no detected significant effects among these different STEM domains in the overall attitudes, the overall self-efficacy beliefs, and the overall expectancy-value beliefs for primary students. The correlations between self-efficacy and expectancy-value were much stronger for the science domain and engineering/technology domain than the mathematics domain. No gender difference of the self-efficacy beliefs was detected except in the mathematics domain, and the result that lower primary students performed significantly better than upper primary students in the self-efficacy was also mainly contributed by the grade difference in the mathematics domain. Whereas no different expectancy-value beliefs existed across genders and grade levels in various STEM domains. The present results reported some unique performances by the primary school students compared to the elder group.},
	keywords = {expectancy-value, gender differences, grade levels, self-efficacy, STEM attitudes},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/jbse/21.20.677},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2021/987-1629707968.pdf},
	author = {Shao-Na Zhou and Lu-Chang Chen and Shao-Rui Xu and Chu-Ting Lu and Qiu-ye Li and De-An Li}
}
