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Tirosh, Dina; Tsamir, Pessia; Levenson, Esther; Tabach, Michal; Barkai, Ruthi – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2013
This article reports on young children's self-efficacy beliefs and their corresponding performance of mathematical and nonmathematical tasks typically encountered in kindergarten. Participants included 132 kindergarten children aged 5-6 years old. Among the participants, 69 children were identified by the social welfare department as being abused…
Descriptors: Young Children, Kindergarten, Self Efficacy, Mathematics
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Phelps, Christine M. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the sources that pre-service teachers (PSTs) use when they construct their self-efficacy beliefs and learning goals, which compose their motivational profiles. Pre-service elementary teachers (n = 22) with different motivational profiles participated in narrative interviews designed to examine…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Profiles, Teacher Educators, Motivation
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Charalambous, Charalambos Y.; Philippou, George N.; Kyriakides, Leonidas – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2008
This paper focuses on efficacy beliefs with respect to teaching mathematics; it aims at testing and validating an existing scale for measuring efficacy beliefs in the domain of mathematics, examining the development of preservice teachers' efficacy beliefs in mathematics during fieldwork, and identifying factors that contribute to the development…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy