TY - JOUR TT - Investigation of Students' Self-Efficacy Beliefs According to Science Achievements and Demographic Characteristics AU - Aktamış, Hilal AU - Kiremit, Hatice ÖZENOĞLU AU - Kubilay, Makbule PY - 2016 DA - December JF - Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi JO - EFED PB - Aydın Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 2146-7862 SP - 1 EP - 10 VL - 7 IS - 2 KW - Öz-yeterlilik KW - Fen başarısı KW - sınıf düzeyi KW - yaşanan il KW - demografik değişkenler N2 - The objective of this research is to determine the effect of Science curriculum on the students’ beliefs of selfefficacy according to demographic characteristics and to examine the effect of this belief on their achievement in science. This research is conducted through relational survey method. The sampling of the research is constituted by 724 sixth, seventh and eighth grade students chosen from four secondary schools in three cities in the Aegean region in 2014-2015 academic year. The students’ beliefs of self-efficacy were measured using scale of Self-Efficacy towards Science. At the end of the study, it was seen that students who had higher self-efficacy beliefs toward Science had higher achievement in science; male students had higher levels of self-efficacy than female students did and as class level rose, self-efficacy beliefs got stronger and there was no change according to the cities where they lived UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/aduefebder/issue//375341 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/399635 ER -