“…Teachers with high self-efficacy are more likely to develop challenging activities, help students succeed and persevere with students who have trouble learning (Kurz & Knight 2003). Studies on self-efficacy or the sense of efficacy of teachers have explored many fields of study and contexts, such as individual relationships, collective efficacy and goal (Kurz & Knight 2003), collective efficacy at the classroom level (Putney & Broughton, 2011), self-efficacy beliefs of novice and experienced teachers (Tschannen-Moran & Woolfolk Hoy, 2007;Marshall, Horton, Igo, & Switzer, 2007), self-efficacy of mathematics teachers (Marshall et al, 2007;Chang, 2010), self-efficacy of pre-service teachers (Cerit, 2010), self-efficacy of science teachers (Cantrell, Young, & Moore, 2017;Smolleck, Carla & Yoder, 2006;Arigbabu et al, 2009), self-efficacy and burn out in teaching (Friedman, 2003), teacher self-efficacy on the curriculum reform (McCormick & Ayres, 2009;Charalambous & Philippou, 2010) and self-efficacy on the technological pedagogical content (Lee & Tsai, 2008). No related study was found in the search of the literature based on the self-efficacy of teachers in the context of Sri Lanka.…”