Abstract
The objective of this study was to determine the academic confidence of students in relation to
gender, age, qualification and program of studies. Academic confidence means one’s strong
beliefs or definite expectancy in academic field of the student (Sander & Sanders, 2004). It
was hypothesized that there is a significant difference in students’ academic confidence
among social sciences and natural sciences disciplines. To measure the students’ academic
confidence a five point Likert type scale ‘Academic confidence’, based on the six factors of
‘Studying’ ‘Understanding’, ‘Attendance’ ‘Grade’ ‘Verbalization’ and ‘Clarifying’ developed
by (Sander and Sanders, 2002), was administrated to collect data from students through
random sampling. The results indicated that female students held significantly higher levels of
academic confidence than their male counterparts. Students enrolled in the Masters' Education
programs and students of public universities following Arts disciplines held significantly
higher academic confidence. This study further recommends a more in-depth study of
academic confidence as it applies particularly to a Pakistani audience.
Sadia Shaukat, Mehwish Bashir. (2015) University Students’ Academic Confidence: Comparison between Social Sciences and Natural Science Disciplines, Journal of Elementary Education, Volume-25, Issue-2.
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