An Empirical Study of Past Performance, Goal Commitment, Computer Self-Efficacy, and Computer Performance of Computer Skill Learner-An Integration of Social Cognitive Theory and Goal-Setting Theory

Author: Wen-Hsiung Wu(Department of Information Management National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences)

Vol.&No.：Vol. 47, No.1
Date：April 2002
Pages：39-54
DOI：10.6300/JNTNU.2002.47(1).03

Abstract：

In the studies of learning computer skills, past researches focused on the discussions of positive relationships of computer self-efficacy and computer performance. Although a number of researches also mentioned that the positive relationships of computer self-efficacy and computer performance are affected by some factors, but few studies addressed for the factor of goal commitment of learner in the motivation process. This study is based on the Social Cognitive Theory and Goal-Setting Theory and proposed a research model. This model includes four constructs: past performance, goal commitment, computer self-efficacy, and computer performance. According to the data collection and analysis from the course of Visual Basic programming language, the results show that past performance of learner has a significant impact on computer performance and computer self-efficacy. Computer self-efficacy of learner will positively influence on goal commitment and computer performance. Moreover, goal commitment of learner has a significant impact on computer performance.

Keywords：goal commitment, computer self-efficacy, computer performance, social cognitive theory, goal-setting theory

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