Study on the Impact of Motivation, Self-Efficacy and Learning Strategies of Faculty of Education Undergraduates Studying ICT Courses

Abstract

The purpose of the study is mainly to validate the existing instrument using principal component analysis. The predictors are motivation, self-efficacy, prior knowledge and learning strategies. These predictors are the dimensions that influence the undergraduate when using ICT at university level. The study manage to gather 150 sample who are the undergraduate students studying Bachelor in Education under PKPG program in INSTEAD, IIUM. It is actually a pilot test done to validate the dimensionality of the items typically in themes such as motivation, self-efficacy, learning strategies and prior knowledge as they were self-constructed items questionnaires. The data were collected using 4 main themes, where some of the themes have sub-items/themes. All the items were constructed by using 7 Likert Scales which indicates point 1 = Strongly Disagree; 2 = Somewhat Disagree; 3 = Disagree; 4 = Neutral; 5 = Somewhat Agree; 6 = Agree and 7 = Strongly Agree respectively. The method employed by this research is by way of a survey questionnaires of 45 items coupled with some demographic data. Keywords: ICT, self-efficacy, motivation, prior knowledge, learning strategy

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