The Impact of an Inservice to Promote Cooperative Learning on the Stability of Teacher Efficacy.

Ross, John A.

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ERIC Number: EJ492106

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1994

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The Impact of an Inservice to Promote Cooperative Learning on the Stability of Teacher Efficacy.

Ross, John A.

Teaching and Teacher Education, v10 n4 p381-94 Jul 1994

Reports an effort to stimulate teacher efficacy by providing a teacher inservice to increase knowledge and skill in cooperative-learning techniques. Researchers measured teacher efficacy three times over eight months. Results indicated use of inservice knowledge, not exposure to it, contributed to changes in efficacy; and general, not personal, teaching efficacy, changed. (Author/SM)

Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Secondary School Teachers, Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Improvement

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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