TY  - JOUR
T1  - Investigating the Relationship of Social Constructivist Learning
Environment and Creative Educational Atmosphere with
Academic Self-Efficacy of Higher Education Students
AU - Ghadampour, Ezzatollah AU - Vieskarami, Hassan Ali AU - Garavand, Houshang 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 27
SP  - 6581
EP  - 6586
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.6581.6586
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.6581.6586
KW  - Social constructivist learning environment
KW  -creative educational atmosphere
KW  -academic self-efficacy
KW  -constructivist
KW  -regression
AB  - The aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship of social constructivist learning
environment and creative educational atmosphere with academic self-efficacy of higher education students.
The research method of the study is correlational. The population of the study includes all MA/MSc students
of Lorestan University as 1643 individuals among which 310 participants were selected via Krejcie and
Morgan’s table using the stratified random sampling proportionate to the size sampling method. To collect data,
the creative educational atmosphere inventory developed by Mohebbi, the social constructivism learning
environment Inventory developed by Haghaighi and Kareshki and the self-efficacy beliefs Inventory of Zakova
were used. To analyze data, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis were used. The results
obtained from the correlation coefficient indicated that there is a significant correlation of social constructivist
learning environment it’s subscales with academic self-efficacy. The results also showed that there is a
significant correlation of creative educational atmosphere it’s subscales with academic self-efficacy. The results
of the present study confirm the role of social constructivist learning environment and creative educational
atmosphere on academic self-efficacy of university students.
ER  -