The present study examined the degree to which teachers' sense of efficacy, as well as other hypothesized influences on commitment to teaching, pre dicted 170 teachers' responses to the question, "Suppose you had it to do all over again: In view of your present knowledge, would you become a teacher?" General and personal efficacy emerged as the two strongest predictors of teaching commit ment, ...

earlier self efficacy studies have been blamed for their methodological weakness and their mere reliance on self-report, survey, and correlational techniques for data collection. the purpose of this study; therefore, was to assess the impact of feuerstein’s theory of mediation on efl teachers’ sense of efficacy through direct observation rather than self reports and to use experimental techniqu...

The study examined task interdependence as a structural factor, which influences the emergence of collective-efficacy versus self-efficacy as a team-level construct. It tested for the differential effects of selfand collective-efficacy on team performance and the effects of initial perceptions of selfand collective-efficacy and record of past performance on the development of their subsequent p...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss ideas related to test preparation. Specifically, the authors focus on physical education teacher preparation programs. The paper discusses the current high-stakes testing landscape that exists in teacher education, shares the T.E.S.T. model (Translate, Eliminate, Solve or Substitute, and (avoid) Tricks) for test preparation, examines how self-efficacy is ...

Abstract Studying collective creativity is critical for understanding how groups, organizations, and communities innovate and progress over time. However, analyzing creativity at the collective level remains an open and challenging issue. We adapt Bandura’s construct of collective efficacy to understand beliefs about collective capacities for creativity among individual members part of scientif...

Schools and school leadership have continued to be scrutinized by the legislature and public. With the passage of such laws as No Child Left Behind in 2001, the accountability standard of public schools has risen to all-time levels. This literature review seeks to discover the effects school leaders have on student achievement. This literature review will look at a variety of leadership styles,...

Self-efficacy is essential to learning but what happens when learning is done as a result of a collective process? What is the role of individual self-efficacy in collective problem solving? This research examines the manifestation of self-efficacy in prediction markets that are configured as collective problem-solving platforms and whether self-efficacy of traders affects the collective outcom...

The study examined task interdependence as a structural factor, which influences the emergence of collective-efficacy versus self-efficacy as a team level construct. It tested for the differential effects of selfand collective-efficacy on team performance, and the effects of initial perceptions of selfand collective-efficacy and record of past performance on the development of their subsequent ...