Using Daily Journal Prompts to Capture the Complexities of Self-Efficacy

To investigate moments impacting the development of self-efficacy, we employed a mixed methods approach coupling the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) with daily journal prompts. This project is an expansion of our mixed methods research design to study the development of self-efficacy through exploring the differences in the daily journal prompts written across two iterations. The daily journal prompts were used to further explore the ESM results in order to understand how moments in students' daily life pertained to their self-efficacy. In this work, we've developed a coding scheme that describes how each of these prompts were written to elicit the facets of self-efficacy (e.g., domains and sources). Here, we will present the coding scheme and examine how we probed into the complexity of students' self-efficacy in relation to their in-the-moment experiences. The coding scheme suggests our prompts were reflective of the sources and domains of self-efficacy and changed across the two iterations of data collection.