ERIC Number: EJ782469
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Jan
Pages: 15
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 30
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0273-5024
The Effectiveness of Mentoring-Based Professional Development on Physical Education Teachers' Pedometer and Computer Efficacy and Anxiety
Martin, Jeffrey J.; McCaughtry, Nate; Kulinna, Pamela; Cothran, Donetta; Faust, Roberta
Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, v27 n1 p68-82 Jan 2008
The purpose of our study was to examine the impact of mentoring-based professional development on physical education teachers' efficacy. Experienced mentor teachers were paired (n = 15) with inexperienced protege teachers (n = 15) at the beginning of a yearlong intervention study. It was hypothesized that teachers would increase their efficacy to use pedometers and computers to enhance instruction, and reduce their computer anxiety. Repeated-measures ANOVAs for mentors and proteges revealed a variety of significant main effects. We found increases in computer and pedometer efficacy. A second set of repeated-measures ANOVAs based on mentors', proteges', and control groups' scores revealed a significant interaction for computer efficacy, indicating that both mentors and proteges significantly increased their computer efficacy compared with the control group. Finally, a significant interaction effect was also found for pedometer efficacy, again indicating that both groups significantly increased their efficacy compared with control teachers. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Mentors, Self Efficacy, Computer Attitudes, Interaction, Physical Education Teachers, Faculty Development, Anxiety, Beginning Teachers, Intervention, Computer Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Urban Schools, African Americans
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Language: English
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