Tale of the tape: psychometric investigation of two popular teacher self-efficacy scales
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Woodcock, Stuart
Ehrich, John
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This study compares the psychometric properties of two popular teacher self-efficacy scales, namely, Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) and Teacher Efficacy Scale (TES). This study was quantitative in nature and distributed the two scales to 287 preservice teachers in the USA and in Australia. Findings indicate that the two scales function well and show linear measurement properties after Rasch optimization. However, the TES’s factor of general teacher efficacy was found to have very low reliability. Regression analyses indicated a significant positive relationship between the Student Engagement subscale of TSES and TES. There is a limited relationship between the two popular scales that have been used for decades. Therefore, we argue for the need for a new scale that will reflect all components of Bandura’s Triadic Reciprocal Determinism.
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Teaching Education
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© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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Testing, assessment and psychometrics
Environmental education curriculum and pedagogy
Education systems
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Education & Educational Research
Teacher self-efficacy
social learning theory
triadic reciprocal determinism model
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Tournaki, N; Woodcock, S; Ehrich, J, Tale of the tape: psychometric investigation of two popular teacher self-efficacy scales, Teaching Education, 2023