Talk:Cognition and Instruction/Social Cognitive Theory

In planning this wikibook chapter, we intend to provide a concise summary of the most important features of this theory in order to provide an overview of the theory and at the same time provoke interest in the topics discussed. We hope that when this chapter is accessible to the general public, people that are not familiar with this topic, if they are interested, will be motivated to look deeper into this theory. We plan to separate the three major factors of Bandura’s self-determinism model to provide the readers with an explanation of how these factors could be separated at first, and then how they are interrelated. Furthermore we also chose to separate the factors in order to create a more organized pattern and make it easier for the reader to visualize the big picture.

Our plan for the course of development for the chapter is to first describe Bandura’s theory and each of the factors and stating how they can reciprocally influence each other in order to facilitate or complicate the acquisition of new knowledge. Secondly, we want to show the usefulness of this theory in real life. Schools are the main institutions for learning, and even though social cognitive theory can be applied to several aspects of life, schools are the best examples since there is a lot of opportunity for social interaction with teachers and peers.

Peer review The structure of the chapter is well organized. The introduction gives a clear overview of the chapter, which allows the reader to relate the contents better while reading it. There are strong connections between the headings and the subheadings, which ties the contents together. The strongest feature of the chapter is each of the components is well defined in its own section. Most of the sections are explained very clear and in depth, so is easy for reader to understand.

The weakest feature of the chapter is more evidence from research articles are needed to support some of the statements or arguments. Sections like goal orientation should be support with evidence from research articles. Also, some of the topics needed more elaboration. The author may do so by making comparison between results of different studies to provide readers with different aspects on the topic. In additions, the author could add more subheadings on topics like enactive and vicarious learning and teacher efficacy for the final version of the chapter. Overall, the chapter is well organized and each section is explained clearly. It would be better if more studies are mentioned to support the arguments in the chapter. --EDUC320 Sylvialiang (discuss • contribs) 02:33, 8 November 2015 (UTC)