Instruments

The Middle School Self-Efficacy Scale is a measure of career decision-making self-efficacy; career decision-making outcome expectancies, intentions, and goals; math and science self-efficacy; and math and science outcome expectancies, intentions, and goals.  Items on career decision-making self-efficacy were modified from the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale (Taylor & Betz, 1983).  Items in the math and science self-efficacy subscale followed the format used in the Math Tasks subscale of the Math/Science Self-Efficacy Scale (Bleschke, 1993; Betz & Hackett, 1983), althought the tasks themselves were developed for middle school students instead of college students.  

This measure consists of four sub-scales: Middle School Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy (12 items); Career Decision-Making Outcome Expectancies/Intentions-Goals (10 items and one open-response question), Math/Science Self-Efficacy (12 items); and Math/Science Outcome Expectancies/Intentions-Goals (13 items and two open-response questions).  The items comprising each of the four sub-scales utilize a 5-point Likert scale.

The link provides access to the Middle School Self-Efficacy Scale as well as its documentation.

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