Beliefs related to classroom management vary among teachers and play an important role in classrooms. Despite the importance of this construct, valid measures have proven difficult to develop. This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Behavior and Instructional Management Scale (BIMS), a short but valid measure of teachers' approaches to behavioral and instructional management. Re...

Behavioral treatment of drooling is advocated widely, but evidence of its effectiveness is lacking. In a center-based case-series study, 10 participants with severe drooling were taught self-management skills to reduce drooling. Following treatment, all participants remained dry for intervals of 30-60 min, while being engaged in daily activities. Generalization to the classroom occurred in each...

This article discusses the role of perceived self-efficacy during classroom learning of cognitive skills. Selfefficacy refers to personal judgments of performance capabilities in a given domain of activity. Students enter classroom activities with various aptitudes and prior experiences, which affect their initial sense of self-efficacy for learning. During task engagement, students may assess ...

Differences, backgrounds, and characteristics of teachers are essential factors in the teaching learning environments. Teachers a vital factor quality education an influential component improving success any educational system. The primary purpose this study is to determine relationship between self-efficacy, goal orientations, epistemological beliefs teachers. A sample 375 participated study. ...

One of the changes that the “Information Age” has brought to classrooms is that a Web-Based Classroom Management Support System (WBC) is now required for more efficient classroom management in elementary schools. This research aims at finding desirable Internet uses for more efficient classroom management through designing and implementing a web-based classroom support system. It has been possi...

In applied linguistics, washback, or backwash, refers to the influence of tests on teaching and learning. Though there is now a large body of research investigating the impact of tests on educational processes and outcomes, the possible effect of language tests on the psychological environment of language classrooms remains underexplored. This study examined the effect of IELTS on the classroom...

For decades, there has been a shortage of language teachers in the US and other parts of the world. While teacher retirements and attrition certainly help explain the shortage, teachers’ sense of efficacy in teaching languages also plays a role, especially among novice instructors (Swanson, 2010a). The present quantitative study focuses on measuring teacher education candidates’ sense of effica...