ERIC Number: EJ1388866
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-1369-9997
EISSN: EISSN-2304-070X
Beyond the Grades: Measuring Teacher's Efficacy for the Psychosocial Grooming of Students
Open Praxis, v15 n1 p60-72 2023
The true spirit of education involves psychosocial grooming and character building of learners. Teacher's efficacy plays a vital role in achieving educational objectives. The effectiveness of teachers is usually evaluated through the academic grades of their students. Teacher's efficacy, however, is originally the ability of a teacher to improve the cognitive functioning and humanistic values of students. The current study developed and validated a new scale entitled the Qualiquant Teacher's Efficacy Scale (QTES) by involving 147 teachers and 59 students. The sample was selected thru a mixed method that involved convenient and purposive sampling techniques. QTES reflected strong validity and excellent reliability thru exploratory factor analysis, Cronbach's alpha, item-scale, and item-total correlations. QTES is a unique measure for teacher's efficacy because it defines teacher's efficacy through cognitive functioning and humanistic values, offers two parallel and separate versions for teachers and students, and quantifies the qualitative data.
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Effectiveness, Self Concept Measures, Humanistic Education, Humanism, Values Education, Foreign Countries, Test Construction, Construct Validity, Test Reliability, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Accuracy
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Pakistan
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