A Confirmatory Factor Analysis on Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale for In-Service Teachers in Malaysia

This study presents the construct-related evidence of Teachers’ Sense Efficacy Scale (TSES) developed by Tschannen-Moran and Woolfolk Hoy (2001) for in-service teachers in Malaysian context. The under-researched validation TSES local context warranted an investigation into unrevealing scale’s psychometric properties. Thus, this cross-sectional sought to determine factor structure scale where loadings each efficacy source contribution were determined. 24-item scale, which drew on its sources from student engagement, instructional strategies, and, classroom management was explored through a confirmatory analysis method. demonstrated that 9-item three-factor model well fitted data setting. recommends improvement items so they could better represent underlying constructs match culture within different educational implicates use measuring teacher Malaysia as it empirically proven have stability.