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Tournaki, Nelly; Lyublinskaya, Irina; Carolan, Brian V. – Action in Teacher Education, 2009
The pressure to provide qualified teachers for all students has resulted in reform efforts, including the upgrading of credential and course requirements, as well as the proliferation of so-called alternative routes to teacher certification, which seek to create differentiated pathways into the classroom. In the present study, we compared teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Measures (Individuals), Teacher Certification, Predictor Variables
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Schechter, Chen; Tschannen-Moran, Megan – International Journal of Educational Management, 2006
Purpose: This study explores the notion of collective teacher efficacy, a characteristic of schools that has emerged as a significant factor in school productivity. More specifically, this paper examines the construct validity and reliability of the Israeli Collective Teacher Efficacy Scale and explores variables that may influence teachers' sense…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Suburban Schools, Elementary Schools, Self Efficacy
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Denzine, Gypsy M.; Cooney, John B.; McKenzie, Rita – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
Background: Research on teacher self-efficacy has revealed substantive problems concerning the validity of instruments used to measure teacher self-efficacy beliefs. Although claims about the influence of teachers' self-efficacy beliefs on student achievement, success with curriculum innovation, and so on, may be true statements, one cannot make…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Factor Analysis, Self Efficacy
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Garcia, Delia C. – Urban Education, 2004
The current study explores the relationship between perceived teacher efficacy and specific practices of family involvement exhibited by 110 elementary school teachers from a large urban school district. Bandura's construct of self-efficacy provided the theoretical framework for examining teacher efficacy. The study investigated the predictive…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Urban Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Family Involvement