How Gender and Age Mediate the Effect of Self-efficacy on Digital Learning Performance?

Self-efficacy is an important concept for understanding learner behavior and provides a foundation for developing training and learner support systems. In a context where digital technology is becoming increasingly prevalent in training systems, learners’ digital self-efficacy affects their learning outcomes. Women have lesser digital self-efficacy than men and may face disadvantages in certain digital learning environments. Similarly, older people appear to be at a disadvantage in digital learning situations. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of digital self-efficacy on a mobile curriculum by asking the following research question: Does digital self-efficacy mediate the relationship between gender and age on the one hand, and learning performance in a digital context on the other? After collecting and analyzing data from 49 participants, we discovered that women had lower digital self-efficacy than males, that older people have lower self-efficacy than younger people, and that self-efficacy has an impact on learning performance. Thus, we have proven that self-efficacy is an important notion that mediates the relationship between gender or age and learning performance.

 Jovanovic, J., McLaren, B., Chounta, IA., Viberg, O., Ortega-Arranz, A., Poquet, O. (eds) Computer Supported Education. CSEDU 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2882. Springer, Cham.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21997-8_25
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