SELF-EFFICACY, ANXIETY AND ATTITUDES ON RESEARCH WRITING OF SELECTED BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS: BASIS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MOTIVATION-INDUCED RESEARCH PROGRAM

A research involving the study on self-efficacy, anxiety and attitudes on research writing of BS Industrial Technology students in Laguna State Polytechnic University (LSPU), Santa Cruz Campus is described in this paper. The main purpose of this study was to: 1.) Describe the students self-efficacy, anxiety and their attitudes toward research writing, 2.) Analysis on the significant difference of the demographic information on the responses of the student towards research writing given the above mention variables, and 3.) Develop a motivation-induced research program for the students based on the result of the study. The statistical population of this study was graduate industrial technology students of LSPU. A sample of 200 students was selected using a proportional stratified sampling technique. A questionnaire was developed to interview the subjects of the study of which the validity and reliability were estimated based on opinions of a panel of experts and Cronbachs alpha coefficient, respectively. Results revealed that the respondents had a moderate level of research anxiety and research self-efficacy. On the other hand, the study also revealed that students of industrial technology have negative attitude toward research. Mann- Whitney U statistical test showed that there was a contributed significantly difference to the level of self-efficacy, anxiety, and attitudes towards research writing.