Title of Document: AN EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF THE EFFECT OF INSTRUCTIONAL CONSULTATION TEAMS ON TEACHER EFFICACY: A MULTIVARIATE, MULTILEVEL EXAMINATION Jessica Robyn Koehler, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Directed By: Professor Gary Gottfredson Counseling and Personnel Services Teacher efficacy, the extent to which teachers feel they can influence student learning (Berman, McLaughlin, Bass, Pa...

Teachers’ judgments in their ability to motivate students and promote learning can play a vital role in determining a student’s performance in the classroom and once a belief has been held for a long time, it can become difficult to change. Utilising a sample of 467 beginner and final year pre-service teachers training to become primary (elementary) and secondary teachers, the aim of this study...

The purposes of this study are to investigate the attitudes and perceptions of teachers toward the adoption of and intention to use Smart Education, to examine empirically the relationship between intention to use Smart Education and the consequential effect factors, and to obtain measures for revitalizing Smart Education. In order to accomplish all these, we suggested an expanded model based o...

Between 1975 and 1997, school teacher bargaining was conducted under the School Boards and Teachers Collective Negotiations Act (Bill 100). By most accounts, the teacher bargaining law was successful in promoting bilateral settlements with minimal strike activity. Following its election in 1995, the Harris government reduced public expenditures and introduced educational reforms. In doing so, i...

We designed a professional development (PD) program to increase the teacher efficacy of mathematics teachers. We randomly assigned 106 grade 6 teachers in one school district to treatment and control conditions in a delayed treatment design. The PD explicitly addressed four sources of teacher efficacy information identified in social cognition theory (Bandura, 1997). Treatment teachers outperfo...

Most research on efficacy and participation in collective action has focused on single country samples with little attention paid to the relationship between efficacy and country-level structural factors. Drawing on value expectancy theory, we theorize a link between macro-level political institutions and micro-level efficacy. To address the previous limitations in the efficacy and collective a...

Teacher efficacy has proven to be an important variable in teacher effectiveness. It is consistently related to positive teaching behaviors and student outcomes. However, the measurement of this construct is the subject of current debate, which includes critical examination of predominant instruments used to assess teacher efficacy. The present study extends this critical evaluation and examine...