the purpose of this research was to determine the effect of volleyball skills training and problem solving on adolescent girls self-efficacy. the research method was semi-experimental and conducted in as pre-test and post-test with four experimental groups.the research statistical population consisted of all first grade students of broujen high schools in the academic year of 2009-2010(1388-89s...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between pre-service primary school teachers' mathematics teaching anxiety and their self-efficacy beliefs toward mathematics teaching through path analysis. There were a total of 250 pre-service primary school teachers involved in this study. Of the total, 202 were female and 48 were male pre-service primary school teachers. To colle...

This study examines the potential connections among learners’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in English, their perceptions of autonomy-supportive teaching and two individual difference variables, i.e. motivation and English speaking self-efficacy. Two hundred and five Iranian EFL learners responded to four questionnaires. The data obtained from the collected instruments were...

The present study was an attempt, in the first place, to observe whether there was any significant relationship among teachers’ critical thinking, self-efficacy, and perception of effective teaching. Moreover, the researchers tried to examine which variable was a better predictor of perception of effective teaching. To this end, the measures of the critical thinking ability of 143 EFL teachers ...

BACKGROUND Being exposed to good teachers has been shown to enhance students' knowledge and their clinical performance, but little is known about the underlying psychological mechanisms that provide the basis for being an excellent medical teacher. Self-Determination Theory (SDT) postulates that more self-regulated types of motivation are associated with higher performance. Social Cognitive The...

the goal of this research is to determine students' self-efficacy in science class through a teaching approach based on conceptual maps. the population consisted of all students who were the first high school freshmen in sarpole-zahab town. a total of 60 students were selected by cluster random sampling method. they were randomly assigned to the treatment and control groups. in the control...