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Goddard, Roger D.; Hoy, Wayne K.; Hoy, Anita Woolfolk – American Educational Research Journal, 2000
Developed a model and an operational measure of collective teacher efficacy and tested the measure in a pilot study involving 70 teachers. Also used the instrument to study collective teacher efficacy and academic achievement in 47 urban elementary schools. Results show collective teacher efficacy to be positively associated with student-level…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Achievement
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Beard, Karen Stansberry; Hoy, Wayne K.; Hoy, Anita Woolfolk – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
Teacher sense of academic optimism is individual teachers' beliefs that they can teach effectively, their students can learn, and parents will support them so the teacher can press hard for learning. This new construct is grounded in the social cognitive and self-efficacy theories, social capital theory, work on school culture and climate and…
Descriptors: School Culture, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy, Factor Analysis
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Hoy, Anita Woolfolk; Hoy, Wayne K.; Kurz, Nan M. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
The objective of this exploratory study of teacher beliefs was twofold: first, to determine whether the construct of academic optimism could be defined and measured as an individual teacher characteristic as it has been at the collective school level, and second, to identify sets of teacher beliefs and practices that were good predictors of…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Teacher Attitudes, Predictor Variables, Elementary School Teachers