ERIC Number: EJ923928
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Jun
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Investigating the Use of Vicarious and Mastery Experiences in Influencing Early Childhood Education Majors' Self-Efficacy Beliefs
Bautista, Nazan Uludag
Journal of Science Teacher Education, v22 n4 p333-349 Jun 2011
This study investigated the effectiveness of an Early Childhood Education science methods course that focused exclusively on providing various mastery (i.e., enactive, cognitive content, and cognitive pedagogical) and vicarious experiences (i.e., cognitive self-modeling, symbolic modeling, and simulated modeling) in increasing preservice elementary teachers' self-efficacy beliefs. Forty-four preservice elementary teachers participated in the study. Analysis of the quantitative (STEBI-b) and qualitative (informal surveys) data revealed that personal science teaching efficacy and science teaching outcome expectancy beliefs increased significantly over the semester. Enactive mastery, cognitive pedagogical mastery, symbolic modeling, and cognitive self-modeling were the major sources of self-efficacy. This list was followed by cognitive content mastery and simulated modeling. This study has implications for science teacher educators.
Descriptors: Education Majors, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Early Childhood Education, Self Efficacy, Children, Science Teachers, Teacher Educators, Investigations, Science Education, Elementary Education, Models
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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