Background of the study

Scope and Delimitation
This study is limited to forty (30) respondents taken out from the total population of ___ students of __________ who are randomly chosen to participate on the study.
IQ test consisting of __ items and a twenty three-item questionnaire used in the study to gather information related to self-efficacy of students.
Definition of Terms
In order to have a clearer and greater understanding of this research study some important words are contextually defined.
Dunning-Kruger Effect. Named after David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University, occurs where people fail to adequately assess their level of competence or specifically, their incompetence at a task and thus consider themselves much more competent than everyone else. This lack of awareness is attributed to their lower level of competence robbing them of the ability to critically analyze their performance, leading to a significant overestimate of themselves. (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect)
Illusory superiority. defined as a cognitive bias whereby individuals overestimate their own qualities and abilities, relative to others. This is evident in a variety of areas including intelligence, performance on tasks or tests, and the possession of desirable characteristics or personality traits. It is one of many positive illusions relating to the self and is a phenomenon studied in social psychology. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority)
Self- Efficacy Theory. The self-efficacy theory talks about how perceived competence of an individual can be used to understand his behavior and motivation when it comes to achieving something. Self-efficacy is used to predict the persistence levels of an individual and not his ultimate performance. (http://communicationtheory.org/self-efficacy-theory/)
Intelligence.  Has been defined in many different ways including as one's capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, planning, creativity and problem solving. It can be more generally described as the ability to perceive information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence)