Does Self-efficacy Matter? On the Correlation of Self-efficacy and Creativity in IT Education

Juhani Risku, Kai-Kristian Kemell, Joni Kultanen, Polina Feschenko, Jeroen Carelse, Krista Korpikoski

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Abstract

Self-efficacy belief affects humans in life, action and work. Higher self-efficacy enables stronger contribution in fulfilling tasks, helping others in a team, and survive when facing obstacles and failures. Also creativity correlates to higher self-efficacy. At the same time, design is a powerful skill in note-making, improving the student’s understanding of the undergoing topic in a class. Note-making, when consisting of recorded writings, self-drawn images and other supportive subjects like structural analyses, charts, ad-hoc notes, detailed features and verbal links to related themes, forms a fundamental skill and ability in learning and applying new motifs and patterns. We executed during a design class an experiment with 22 students from various faculties at two universities by designing and creating visual notebooks. The students acted as designers and visualizers communicating to themselves and their teams with own creations. These notebooks were analyzed and reflected against the questionnaire results to evaluate the impact of the course in the progress in design skills and creativity.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDoes Self-efficacy Matter? On the Correlation of Self-efficacy and Creativity in IT Education
EditorsSami Hyrynsalmi, Mari Suoranta, Anh Nguyen-Duc, Pasi Tyrväinen, Pekka Abrahamsson
PublisherSpringer
Chapter17
Pages584–599
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-33742-1
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-33741-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Nov 2019
MoEC publication typeA4 Article in a conference publication
EventSoftware Business: 10th International Conference, ICSOB 2019, Jyväskylä, Finland, November 18–20, 2019, Proceedings - Jyväskylä, Finland
Duration: 18 Nov 201920 Nov 2019

Publication series

SeriesLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
ISSN1865-1348

Conference

ConferenceSoftware Business
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityJyväskylä
Period18.11.201920.11.2019

Field of science

  • Computer and information sciences

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