Engineering Student Survey on Self-Efficacy and Engagement in China

A cross-sectional questionnaire survey of 407 undergraduate engineering students from 12 programs at a Chinese applied university in the 2024-2025 academic year. The data assesses academic self-efficacy, behavioral/emotional/cognitive engagement in design activities, and engineering thinking.

Use Cases

• Analyze the correlation between academic self-efficacy scores and engineering thinking scores among 407 students.
• Test the mediating role of behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement variables between self-efficacy and engineering thinking.
• Compare engagement levels across the 12 engineering-related programs included in the survey.
• Apply structural equation modeling (e.g., PLS-SEM) to the survey data to validate the proposed psychological pathway.

Strengths

• Data from 407 students provides a sample for statistical analysis.
• Survey assessed multiple constructs: self-efficacy, three engagement dimensions, and engineering thinking.
• Analysis included 5,000 bootstrap resamples for robust indirect-effect estimates.
• Measurement model was validated for reliability and validity.

Limitations

• Sample is limited to a single university in eastern China, limiting generalizability.
• Cross-sectional design prevents causal inference.
• The dataset is small at 69.9 KB, indicating limited raw data or a summary.

Provenance

Source

Fang Chen via figshare.

Collection Method

Questionnaire survey administered to undergraduate engineering students.

Time Range

Second semester of the 2024-2025 academic year.

Freshness

Data collected during the second semester of the 2024-2025 academic year.

Geography

An applied university in eastern China.