The Link Between Professional Learning Communities and Collective Efficacy

• In Event: 16.016 - Leading Teacher Efficacy: Principal Support, Teacher Needs, and Student Achievement

Abstract

This quantitative study investigated the relationship between PLCs and teachers’ collective efficacy drawing on 297 surveys from 16 schools in one district that had systematically implemented PLCs. Our findings showed that higher functioning PLCs predict higher levels of teacher collective efficacy (TCE). This suggests that engaging and supporting teachers in PLC work, as this district did, can lead to enhanced collective efficacy, which in turn can contribute to improved student achievement.

Author

• Robert H. Voelkel, University of North Texas