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Paneque, Oneyda M.; Barbetta, Patricia M. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2006
This study examined the teacher efficacy of special education teachers of English language learners (ELLs) with disabilities by surveying 202 elementary special education teachers. Overall participant teacher efficacy scores were high. No statistically significant differences in efficacy scores were found for levels of teacher preparation, number…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Special Education Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, English (Second Language)
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Bleicher, Robert E. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2006
The purpose of this study was to examine changes in personal science teaching self-efficacy (PSTE), outcome expectancy (STOE), and science conceptual understanding and relationships among these in preservice teachers. Seventy preservice teachers enrolled in science teaching methods courses participated in this study. PSTE, STOE, and science…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Science Instruction
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Suldo, Shannon M.; Huebner, E. Scott – Social Indicators Research, 2006
This study examined whether extremely high life satisfaction was associated with adaptive functioning or maladaptive functioning. Six hundred ninety-eight secondary level students completed the Students' Life Satisfaction Scale [Huebner, 1991a, School Psychology International, 12, pp. 231-240], Youth Self-Report of the Child Behavior Checklist…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Adolescents, Well Being, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Button, Linda J.; Fortino, Carol A.; Gerretson, Helen; Johnson, Sharon – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
The ULINCS Project research describes how elementary teachers learned a model for integrating skills of mathematics, reading, and writing with the teaching of science which led to increased teaching skills and enhanced student achievement. This joint university and school district project was funded by an Eisenhower Grant, and focused on educators…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, School Districts, Teamwork
Brennan, Michael D.; Robison, Cheri – 1995
This study compared male and female university teachers' sense of teaching efficacy and their belief in their ability to effect student change. A total of 30 university teachers (15 men and 15 women) from Eastern New Mexico University completed a self-efficacy quiz. The participants' mean years of total teaching were 12.2. One-way analysis of…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Change Agents, College Faculty, College Instruction
Pigge, Fred L.; Marso, Ronald N. – 1993
A sense of efficacy, the extent to which teachers believe that they have the capacity to affect pupil performance, is related to both teaching behaviors and pupil performance. This study was designed to test the developmental hypothesis that teachers' sense of efficacy would increase during their successful progression through preservice training…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Career Development
Fry, Prem S. – 1992
Recent initiatives by child educators, school psychologists, and practitioners emphasize providing cognitive instruction and promoting cognitive competence in all children, not only the high-achieving or most intelligent students. This book reviews efforts of cognitively-oriented educators, with the objective of translating knowledge into improved…
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Competence
Warkentin, Robert W.; And Others – 1994
A theoretical model describes the components of academic studying focusing on antecedents as well as the consequences of studying. This study uses correlational means to explore the relationship among student characteristics, study activities, and outcomes for 42 education majors. Study activities were assessed with a self-report questionnaire.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Correlation
Friedman, Isaac A. – 1997
Taxing situations that threaten the administrator's sense of self-efficacy meaningfully account for burnout in human-service professionals. This paper presents findings of a study that hypothesized that environmental or role stressors could be classified as task, organization, and relations stressors, each pertaining to a different domain of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Burnout, Coping
Hipp, Kristine A. – 1997
Principals play a unique role in school and student outcomes. This paper presents findings of a study that explored how principals' leadership behaviors influenced teachers' sense of efficacy. Specifically, the paper describes how principals in three middle schools influenced teachers' sense of efficacy and affected instructional and school…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Instructional Leadership, Intermediate Grades, Interprofessional Relationship
Subotnik, Rena F.; And Others – 1997
This study investigated patterns of procrastination in the domains of health, relationships, employment, and creative outlets in 19 former Westinghouse Science Talent Search winners, age 32 years. A model was synthesized from the available literature and an interview schedule of 14 open-ended items was developed to elicit self-assessments of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attitude Measures, Behavior Patterns, Creativity
Marchant, Gregory J.; Schroeder, Thomas S. – 1992
Increased interest in teacher cognition has led to new ways of explorating teachers' thoughts and beliefs. The study described here combines elements of two previous studies to make comparisons among similes and simile categories and approaches to classroom teaching. The purpose of the study was to determine the relation between support for…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cognitive Structures, Education Majors, Elementary Secondary Education
Anderman, Eric M.; Midgley, Carol – 1992
Recently, psychologists have investigated self-efficacy as it relates to teaching and learning. This study used hierarchical linear modeling (HLM)--a powerful new technique for assessing multilevel data--to examine the effects on self-efficacy of a school-wide effort to value task-mastery and learning over relative ability and competition. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style
D'Emidio-Caston, Marianne – 1993
Many preservice teachers confront their own lack of confidence and actual mathematics phobia for the first time in their math procedures classes. This study was designed to explore the application of a confluent education intervention, a model based on the premise that all learning is accompanied by an affective as well as a cognitive component,…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Attitude Change, Cognitive Structures, Constructivism (Learning)
Garcia, Teresa; Pintrich, Paul R. – 1991
This paper presents results of a study that examined the effect of different levels of autonomy upon intrinsic goal orientation, task value, self-efficacy, test anxiety, use of metacognitive strategies, and performance in the college classroom. Study participants were 365 college students from 4 institutions in 10 classrooms: 3 biology (n=162); 3…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, College Students
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