It's not you, it's me: teachers' self-efficacy and attributional beliefs towards students with specific learning difficulties
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Hitches, Elizabeth
Jones, Garry
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This study of 122 British secondary teachers investigated the relationship between teacher self-efficacy and teachers’ causal beliefs towards students with and without specific learning difficulties. Results found that teachers reporting higher levels of teacher self-efficacy provided more positive feedback to all students, regardless of students’ ability levels, effort expenditure, or the presence of specific learning difficulties. Additionally, teachers reporting higher levels of teacher self-efficacy felt less frustration, more sympathy, and held lower expectations of future failure towards students who expended low effort. The findings suggest that teachers with higher levels of teacher self-efficacy may undertake a teacher-intrapersonal causal search to explain student underachievement, in comparison to teachers with lower levels of teacher self-efficacy who may undertake an interpersonal causal search.
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International Journal of Educational Research
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97
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Woodcock, S; Hitches, E; Jones, G, It's not you, it's me: teachers' self-efficacy and attributional beliefs towards students with specific learning difficulties, International Journal of Educational Research, 2019, 97, pp. 107-118