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The Road To Researcher: The Development Of Research Self-Efficacy In Higher Education Scholars, Elizabeth Niehaus, Crystal Garcia, Jillian N. Reading
The Road To Researcher: The Development Of Research Self-Efficacy In Higher Education Scholars, Elizabeth Niehaus, Crystal Garcia, Jillian N. Reading
Department of Educational Administration: Faculty Publications
Aim/Purpose: Understanding how students develop a sense of efficacy as researchers can pro-vide faculty members in higher education doctoral programs insight into how to be more effective teachers and mentors, necessitating discipline-specific research on how graduate programs are and can be fostering students’ research self-efficacy (RSE). Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore how doctoral pro-grams and early research experiences contribute to the development of RSE in higher education scholars.
Background: Participants identified elements of the formal and “hidden” curriculumt pro-moted and inhibited RSE development.
Methodology: We employed multiple case study analysis of 17 individual early career scholars …