Self-efficacy and its relationship to productive thinking among kindergarten students Abstract:

Abstract

The current research aims to identify kindergarten department students To achieve the objectives of the current research, the researcher selected a random sample of 150 students from the Kindergarten Department, College of Basic Education, Al-Mustansiriya Universit. The researcher adopted a self-efficacy and productive thinking scales based on previous studies. The self-efficacy scale consisted of 30 items distributed dimensions, while the productive thinking scale consisted of 20 items across four dimensions  The five-point Likert scale was was used to measure the response to each item of the scale. The psychometric properties of the validity and reliability of the scale were extracted. The researcher used appropriate statistical methods to analyze them and derive the results. The results of the current research reached the presence of self-efficacy and productive thinking among kindergarten students Significant relationship was found between self-efficacy and productive thinking among kindergarten department students.

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