Purpose The capability to create and manage innovations is recognized as an important skill
not only for entrepreneurial activities but also for the survival of organizations. The last few …

Background Self‐efficacy has been shown to be positively related to undergraduate
engineering students' achievement. Designing self‐efficacy measures to assess the …

Motivation is frequently studied in the context of engineering education. However, the use of
the term motivation can be inconsistent, both in how clearly it is defined and in how it is …

Background One of the goals of most undergraduate engineering curricula is to prepare
students to solve openended design problems. Solving design problems requires applying …

We aimed to model the direct effects of the theorized relationships of academic self-efficacy,
computer use self-efficacy, learning management system self-efficacy, internet and …

Background Calls for the reform of education in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) have inspired many instructional innovations, some research based …

Research indicates that teacher efficacy influences student achievement and is situation
specific. With the Next Generation Science Standards calling for the incorporation of …

Background Humanitarian engineering (HE) is rapidly emerging in universities and
professional workplaces worldwide. In HE, socio‐technical thinking is fundamental as HE …

Background Prior researchers developed an instrument to measure perceived design
thinking ability of first‐year students interested in engineering, and they validated the …

Background While research indicates that self‐efficacy is related to learning on discrete
tasks, less is known about self‐efficacy for learning in complex, ill‐structured learning …