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Jerrim, John; Sims, Sam; Oliver, Mary – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2023
Bandura's influential theory has been used to argue that teachers with high self-efficacy will be more effective at increasing pupil achievement--and a voluminous empirical literature has repeatedly documented associations consistent with this claim. However, few studies have considered whether these correlations reflect an underlying causal…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, International Assessment, Achievement Tests
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Gråstén, Arto; Kokkonen, Juha; Kokkonen, Marja – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
Homogeneous teaching efficacy profiles of in-service physical education (PE) teachers (N = 175) from a variety of educational institutions, elementary to higher education, were examined. In addition, associated gender bias and equality beliefs in PE were investigated. Three profiles (Low, Intermediate, High) were identified using cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Woods, Amelia Mays; Rhoades, Jesse – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2013
The National Board of Professional Teaching Standards offers a voluntary advanced certification for K-12 teachers. The majority of teachers who pursue this professional development program live in the USA, although there are National Board Certified teachers across the globe. This study examined National Board Certified Physical Education…
Descriptors: Teacher Certification, Rating Scales, Faculty Development, Self Efficacy
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Liao, Wei; Liu, Yan; Zhao, Ping; Li, Qiong – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
The Teacher Rotation Policy (TRP) is a recent teacher policy developed in the context of China. TRP seeks to close China's teacher quality disparities through rotating 'high-quality' urban schoolteachers to teach in hard-to-staff rural schools for a period of time. This qualitative case study examined how five policy actors carried out TRP in one…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Quality, Teacher Competencies
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Hong, Ji Y. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2012
With the increasing concern about the high attrition rate among beginning teachers, it is essential that we come to a better understanding of why teachers leave the profession. This study explored differences between leavers and stayers in terms of the process of their resilience responses. Major psychological factors such as value, self-efficacy,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Self Efficacy, Semi Structured Interviews, Career Change
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Day, Christopher – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2014
The work of leaders in schools takes place in shifting and sometimes conflicting reform contexts which tend to increase and intensify their professional work and personal lives as they seek to influence a range of stakeholder groups and individuals in processes of school improvement. Such diverse and sometimes competing demands of policy, local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Resilience (Psychology), Instructional Leadership