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Henson, Robin K.
Relationships between Preservice Teachers' Self-Efficacy,
Task Analysis, and Classroom Management Beliefs.
2001-02-03
42p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest
Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, February
1-3, 2001).
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*Classroom Techniques; Elementary Secondary Education;
Higher Education; *Locus of Control; Preservice Teacher
Education; *Self Efficacy; Student Behavior; *Student
Teacher Attitudes; Student Teachers; *Task Analysis
ABSTRACT
Robin K. Henson
University of North Texas 76203-1337
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Teachers'
As many
A teacher's
Constructivist theoretical
In a study of 182
Martin, Yin, and Baldwin (1998) used the work of Glickman and
Tamashiro (1980) and Wolfgang (1995) to develop an instrument
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Students of
&
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are also more likely to agree that a low SES student should be
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three instruments were handed out and 127 were returned. One
packet was eliminated due to excessive data leaving a final
sample size of 126.
(elementary, 58.7%;
(4 items)
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In the first
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were created by summing the ratings for the helpful items and
difficult items.
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coefficients greater than .65 and the factor accounted for 58.0%
of the correlation matrix variance. Variable scores were created
with an unweighted mean of the items (CTE). High scores indicate
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items on for each factor (PTE and EASF). High scores on PTE
indicate greater global personal teaching efficacy. High scores
on EASF indicate greater tendency to attribute student failure
to external causes (e.g., home environment, lack of discipline).
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(1998) suggested
when
Henson et al.
and Woolfolk Hoy (2000) found some preliminary support for the
model. Model development may extend to examine links between
efficacy and classroom management beliefs. Finally, the impact
of professional development initiatives such as teacher research
and other extended, teacher-centered programs show considerable
promise for impacting change toward positive outcomes. This
appears true for practicing teachers (cf. Henson, in press;
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alpha
No.
items
Scale
Variable
SD
INSTR
2.84
.48
.76
4 point
PEOPLE
2.46
.45
.70
10
4 point
CTE
5.27
.73
.85
7 point
PTE
4.73
.66
.68
7 point
EASF
3.68
.91
.67
7 point
HELP
21.37
9.27
DIFF
14.80
6.75
LOC-HELP
3.63
3.12
LOC-DIFF
-1.77
3.16
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.682
.656
INSTR
PEOPLE
.857
EASF
.943
-.449
-.517
.759
.735
rs
Rc2
HELP
DIFF
20.16%
26.73%
88.92%
INSTR
PEOPLE
Variable/
Statistic
14.90%
57.61%
54.02%
rs
-.905
-.226
1.005
-.060
Funct.
-.977
-.512
.998
.058
rs
Analysis Twob
95.45%
26.21%
4.70%
99.60%
0.34%
rs
Rc2
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EASF = External Attributions for Student Failure; HELP = sum of ratings for elements that
PTE = Personal Teaching Efficacy; CTE = Contextual Teaching Efficacy from METTA case;
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-.212
PTE
CTE
Rc2
Funct.
Variable/
Statistic
Analysis Onea
Table 2
Analysis Two predicts classroom management beliefs with the task analysis variables.
attributions variables.
a Analysis One predicts classroom management beliefs with the efficacy and external
help instruction in the METTA case; DIFF = sum of ratings that make instruction difficult
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