Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy in Schools Implementing an Optimized Student Support Model

• In Event: Poster Session 15
  In Poster Session: The Lives of Teachers: Poster Session

Abstract

Teacher efficacy is defined as a set of beliefs about the capability to evoke desired outcomes in student learning. A twelve-item Teacher Efficacy scale (Tschannen-Moran & Woolfolk Hoy, 2007) was completed by 149 elementary school teachers in two large Massachusetts high-poverty urban school districts as part of a longer satisfaction and practice survey for a school-based student support intervention. The tool provides an overall Efficacy score and Instructional Strategies, Classroom Management, and Student Engagement efficacy sub-scores. Factor structure in this sample was comparable to prior research and scale reliability was high (0.85-0.94). Compared to the literature, teachers in this intervention rated themselves higher in efficacy, particularly Classroom Management. Multivariate analyses revealed an association of efficacy and years of teaching experience.

Authors

• Michael Capawana

• Anastasia E. Raczek, Boston College

• Evan Michel, Boston College

• Claire Foley, Boston College

• Mary Walsh, Boston College