Search results for "self-efficacy"

Inclusive education from teachers' perspective : exploring Chilean teachers' attitudes and self-efficacy

2017

Chile has been moving towards inclusive education. However, there are still many challenges regarding the implementation of inclusion policies. Teachers’ attitudes and self-efficacy are crucial for implementation to be successful. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore Chilean teachers’ attitudes towards inclusive education and self-efficacy in implementing inclusive practices. The data were collected in 2015. A sample of 108 Chilean in-service teach-ers completed a questionnaire containing a Sentiments, Attitudes and Concerns about Inclusive Education (SACIE) scale, a Teacher Self-Efficacy for Inclusive Practices (TEIP) scale, and ratings for the best educational environment for stu…

Teachers' attitudes and self-efficacy on implementing inclusive education in Japan and Finland: A comparative study using multi-group structural equa…

2018

Abstract This study aims to explore relationships between teachers' attitudes, self-efficacy, and background variables regarding inclusive education by using a sample of 359 Japanese and 872 Finnish teachers. A multi-group structural equation modelling was conducted to find similarities and differences in how the background variables predict teachers' attitudes and self-efficacy. Experience in teaching students with disabilities had a positive effect on teachers' attitudes and self-efficacy in both countries. However, teachers' teaching career and the amount of inclusive education training affected them differently in Japan and Finland. The findings could be used to improve inclusive educat…

Environmental learning and individual spatial factors: the role of self-efficacy: Poster

2021

Environmental learning and individual spatial factors: the role of self-efficacy: Oral presentation

2021

Self-Efficacy Between Previous and Current Mathematics Performance of Undergraduate Students: An Instrumental Variable Approach to Exposing a Causal …

2021

PurposeSelf-efficacy has been argued theoretically and shown empirically to be an essential construct for students’ improved learning outcomes. However, there is a dearth of studies on its causal effects on performance in mathematics among university students. Meanwhile, it will be erroneous to assume that results from other fields of studies generalize to mathematics learning due to the task-specificity of the construct. As such, attempts are made in the present study to provide evidence for a causal relationship between self-efficacy and performance with a focus on engineering students following a mathematics course at a Norwegian university.MethodThe adopted research design in the presen…

Towards Sustaining Levels of Reflective Learning: How Do Transformational Leadership, Task Interdependence, and Self-Efficacy Shape Teacher Learning …

2015

Whereas cross-sectional research has shown that transformational leadership, task interdependence, and self-efficacy are positively related to teachers’ engagement in reflective learning activities, the causal direction of these relations needs further inquiry. At the same time, individual teacher learning might play a mutual role in strengthening school-level capacity for sustained improvement. Building on previous research, this longitudinal study therefore examines how transformational leadership, task interdependence, self-efficacy, and teachers’ engagement in self-reflection mutually affect each other over time. Questionnaire data gathered on three measurement occasions from 655 Dutch …

Distributed leadership and teacher’ self-efficacy : the case studies of three Chinese schools in Shanghai

2011

This study looks into the distributed leadership and its influence on teachers’ self-efficacy in three Chinese schools in Shanghai. Against the background of the eighth national curriculum reform launched in 2002, the Chinese schools are seeking for the new way to enhance the school-based curriculum. On top of that, the trend of decentralization also encourages the school principals to involve the teachers in the school leadership practice. The relationship between distributed leadership and teachers’ self-efficacy in this study is examined from the angle of principals’ empowerment strategies. A mixed methods approach is applied to collect both qualitative and quantitative data from the thr…

Subject expertise among teacher students of English and Swedish : the ideal language teacher and self-efficacy beliefs

2015

Käsitykset kielen oppimisesta ja opettamisesta ovat muuttuneet kielen rakenteita korostavista näkemyksistä yhä enemmän kommunikatiivisiksi (Abrahamsson 2009). Tämän tutkielman lähtökohtana onkin havainnoida näiden muuttuvien kielikäsitysten heijastumista kielenopettajaopiskelijoiden näkemyksissä selvittämällä, mitä kielitaidon osa-alueita he pitävät kaikista tärkeimpinä. Tutkielma keskittyy toisaalta oppiainekohtaiseen aineenhallintaan, minkä tarkoitus on kartoittaa opiskelijoiden valmiuksia kohdata tulevan työelämän haasteet. Jotta opiskelijoiden sopeutuminen työelämään tapahtuisi mahdollisimman sujuvasti, tulee heidän luonnollisesti hallita opettamansa kieli mahdollisimman hyvin. Kiviniem…

Cognitive skills, self-beliefs and task interest in children with low reading and/or arithmetic fluency

2022

This study examined the identifiability and early cognitive and motivational markers of low reading and arithmetic fluency. Comparisons of these characteristics between Finnish third graders (n = 197) with low fluency in reading, arithmetic, or both revealed, first, that the majority of third graders with low arithmetic fluency showed low arithmetic skills already at first-grade spring, whereas children with low reading fluency were identified from the second-grade fall onward. Second, all groups with low fluency showed low rapid automatized naming and counting skills across the primary school years, while in other cognitive skills these groups showed different patterns. Third, all groups w…

Sammenhengen mellom selvhandikapping, frykt for å feile og mestringstro i kroppsøving : En kvantitativ undersøkelse blant ungdomsskoleelever på Vestl…

2019

Master grunnskolelærerutdanning for trinn 5-10, 5-årig masterprogram IDR507 - Universitetet i Agder 2019 The purpose of this study was to gain more knowledge about the concepts of self-handicapping, self-efficacy and fear of failure in physical education, and also to investigate potential variation when it comes to school leveland gender among pupils in secondary school.The aimof thisstudy was twofold; 1) to investigate differences in the relevant concepts on the basis of school leveland gender and 2) to investigate relationships between the different concepts. Part 2 is more specifically related to examining the predictive ability of fear of failure and self-efficacy on self-handicapping. …