Based on the fact that the relationships among student teachers’ efficacy beliefs, achievement goals, and conceptions about teaching and learning has remained to be investigated to date, this study aimed to examine student teachers’ efficacy beliefs and achievement goals as predictors of their conceptions about teaching and learning. Results of the present study showed that student teachers’ co...

Although many teachers now have access to computers for teaching and learning and profess a belief in the value of computers for education the impact on the day to day work in classrooms is still limited. Even where teachers believe in the use of computers and have the necessary technical skills they may be reluctant to implement them in their classrooms. Increasing teachers' self-efficacy beli...

Research shows that self-efficacy is an important concept which influences a teacher’s ability to teach and the effectiveness with which the teaching is done. Each teacher trainee has a sense of efficacy with regards to teaching which is influenced by many factors. This study aimed to determine the teaching self-efficacy of third-year teacher education students in three categories: student enga...

This study investigated professional empowerment of junior middle school teachers in Taiwan, compared the difference on the sense of autonomy in background variables, and explored the extent to which professional power explained professional efficacy, using questionnaire method. The results showed that (1) the sense of professional empowerment of junior middle school teachers was on the middle ...

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, ...

Teaching efficacy beliefs have attracted researchers' attention in recent decades because of its close association with and potential impact on the implementation of new ideas and skills in education. In the present study, we have explored the psychometric properties and construct validity of the Turkish adaptation of the Mathematics Teacher Efficacy Belief Instrument developed by Enochs, Smith...