A Correlation Research Between Professional Identity And Learning Engagement Of The Secondary Vocational School Students: The Mediating Role Of Academic Self-efficacy

Secondary vocational students are an important source of cultivating hundreds of millions of high-quality laborers and technical talents in the new era.Professional learning is an important platform carrier for secondary vocational students to improve their knowledge and skills.Secondary vocational students have a strong interest and deep emotion in the major they are learning,and the harder they will study,the stronger their professional identity will be.The professional identification of secondary vocational students is the emotional acceptance and recognition of learners on the basis of cognition and understanding of the disciplines they have learned,accompanied by positive external behaviors and inner sense of appropriateness.The higher the level of professional identity,the more vocational students will invest in cognitive,emotional and behavioral learning,their academic learning ability and self-efficacy in learning behavior will increase,and they will gradually build professional self-confidence and desire to learn more professional knowledge and skills.Professional values and career dreams.This study uses academic self-efficacy as an intermediary variable to understand the relationship between professional identity and learning input of secondary vocational students,and then focuses on improving the quality of secondary vocational education talent training,which will help secondary vocational students to improve their learning status and academic performance.This research is divided into two parts.The first part is to revise the "Professional Approval Scale for Secondary Vocational Students";The second part is about the characteristics of professional identification,study investment and academic self-efficacy of secondary vocational students.The research results are as follows:Firstly,the revised "Professional Identification Scale for Secondary Vocational Students" contains a total of 16 questions,including four dimensions of "professional cognition" "professional emotion" "professional behavior" and "professional training",and has good reliability and validity..Secondly,in the two demographic variables of professional type、grade,there are significant differences in the total professional identification scores and various dimensions of secondary vocational students.Thirdly,in the demographic variables of gender,there are significant differences in the dimensions of academic self-efficacy,learning behavior and learning ability of secondary vocational students.Fourthly,in terms of the three demographic variables of gender、professional type、grade,there are significant differences in the learning input and learning cognitive,emotional and behavioral dimensions of secondary vocational students.Fifthly,the professional identity and various dimensions of secondary vocational students can play a positive role in predicting academic self-efficacy.The academic self-efficacy of secondary vocational students plays an intermediary role between professional identification and learning investment.Professional identity affects learning input through academic self-efficacy as an intermediary.That is to say,the improvement of professional identity will make the level of learning investment higher,but to achieve this effect,it needs to increase the level of academic self-efficacy of secondary vocational students through the intermediate variable.