ERIC Number: EJ892134
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Aug
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 42
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0261-9768
The Nature of the Relationship between Teaching Concerns and Sense of Efficacy
Boz, Yezdan; Boz, Nihat
European Journal of Teacher Education, v33 n3 p279-291 Aug 2010
This study examined the relationship between prospective teachers' concerns about their teaching and their beliefs about their sense of efficacy. Three hundred and thirty-nine prospective teachers participated in this study. Two instruments, the "Teaching Concerns Checklist" and the "Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Beliefs Scale", were used to elicit the participants' teaching concerns and their sense of efficacy. Canonical correlation analysis, conducted to explore the relationships between these two constructs, revealed that concern variables were negatively correlated with efficacy variables. This means that if teachers believe their efficacy is weaker, they tend to have more concerns about teaching. The results of this study have implications for teacher education programmes. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Correlation, Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Beliefs, Preservice Teacher Education, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Turkey

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