General Academic Self-Efficacy Scale (GASE)
A 5-item measure of students’ confidence in their ability to succeed academically, validated across ages, genders, and nations.
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About This Instrument
The General Academic Self-Efficacy Scale (GASE) assesses beliefs about one’s capacity to organise and execute actions needed to achieve academic goals. It captures how confident students feel about managing difficult academic problems, sticking to their aims, and performing in exams. The scale is unidimensional, psychometrically robust, and has demonstrated longitudinal invariance and criterion validity across multiple samples.
5 Items
Single factor
1–5 Scale
Strongly disagree – Strongly agree
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Conditions of Use: This instrument is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. You may use it for academic, educational, and research purposes at no cost, provided that you give appropriate attribution to Prof. Llewellyn E. van Zyl and cite the original publication. Commercial use is not permitted. You do not need to email for permission. By downloading the instrument below, you confirm that you agree to these terms.
Reference: van Zyl, L. E., Klibert, J., Shankland, R., See-To, E. W., & Rothmann, S. (2022). The general academic self-efficacy scale: Psychometric properties, longitudinal invariance, and criterion validity. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 40(6), 777–789. View publication
Complete the GASE
Answer all 5 items below, then calculate your results.
Instructions
Please read each of the following statements carefully and select the option which indicates how much you agree with that given statement. There are no right or wrong answers. Do not spend too much time thinking about any statement.
Completion
I generally manage to solve difficult academic problems if I try hard enough.
I know I can stick to my aims and accomplish my goals in my field of study.
I will remain calm in my exam because I know I will have the knowledge to solve the problems.
I know I can pass the exam if I put in enough work during the semester.
The motto "If other people can, I can too" applies to me when it comes to my field of study.
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