Publication Date
2017
Document Type
Dissertation/Thesis
First Advisor
Tonks, Stephen M.
Degree Name
M.S. Ed. (Master of Education)
Legacy Department
Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations
LCSH
Educational psychology; Educational leadership; Physical education and training
Abstract
This study constituted a secondary analysis of the data collected at a week-long training for local Belizean youth leaders to foster Positive Youth Development through Sports. The training was embedded in a partnership between Northern Illinois University and youth organizations from Belize. Bandura's theory on self-efficacy beliefs was adopted as a framework to analyze participants' confidence regarding teaching personal and social skills within their own practices to youth. The purpose of this study was to analyze participants' self-efficacy beliefs for teaching personal and social skills using the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility model as a means for promoting Positive Youth Development. A mixed methods approach was adopted for this study. Quantitative analysis was used to determine whether there was an increase in participants' self-efficacy beliefs as measured by a pre- and post-training survey. The proposed qualitative analysis examined the process through which participants' beliefs were affected by their participation in the training; more specifically, by looking at the sources of self-efficacy and their interaction with participants' self-efficacy beliefs.
Recommended Citation
Cabrera Gadea, Lucia, "Assessing the effectiveness of a training program designed to increase participants' self-efficacy for promoting positive youth development through sports in a developing nation" (2017). Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations. 1539.
https://huskiecommons.lib.niu.edu/allgraduate-thesesdissertations/1539
Extent
iv, 122 pages
Language
eng
Publisher
Northern Illinois University
Rights Statement
In Copyright
Rights Statement 2
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Media Type
Text
Comments
Advisors: Stephen Tonks; Lee Shumow.||Committee members: Jennifer A. Schmidt; Lee Shumow; Stephen Tonk; Paul M. Wright.||Includes bibliographical references.