The Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Preservice Teachers’ Self-Efficacy in Regard to The Teaching of Science as Inquiry

Changes in Preservice Teachers’ Self-Efficacy: From Science Methods to Student Teaching

“…The National Science Education Standards (NSES) view scientific inquiry "as an integral component for restructuring science education" (Smolleck, Zembal-Saul & Yoder, 2006).The current shift in science education is from teacher lead instruction to student-centered instruction. The NRC describes inquiry as "a pedagogical method combining higher order questioning with student-centered discussion and discovery of central concepts through laboratory activities" (as cited in Damnjanovic, 1999, p. 71).…”

“…The TSI Instrument was developed "based on contemporary ideas about inquiry, as well as grounded in the fundamental ideas of Bandura, particularly the notion of self-efficacy being a context-specific construct" (Smolleck, Zembal-Saul, & Yoder, 2006, p. 141). This instrument, which addresses each of the 24 variations of the essential features of classroom inquiry, was developed for use with pre-service elementary teachers and has been judged to be both valid and reliable for assessing the self-efficacy beliefs of prospective elementary teachers with regard to the teaching of science as inquiry Dira-Smolleck, 2004). The TSI Instrument addresses "the ideas of where self-efficacy and inquiry science teaching connect" (2006, p. 145).…”

Development and Application of an Instrument to Measure Greek Primary Education Teachers’ Biology Teaching Self-efficacy Beliefs

“…Cocncluding, teachers' self-efficacy in biology teaching is important to explore as it may affect elementary science teaching such as science instruction time, students' achievement in science (Smolleck et al 2006) and teachers' attitudes toward implementing new instructional practices (Ghaith & Yaghi 1997). Therefore, teachers' BioTSEB should be measured so as to have a clear picture of their self-efficiency beliefs in order that appropriate measures be taken where needed i.e.…”

“…In Greece, as mentioned above, very few teachers have attended biology courses during their undergraduate studies; therefore they have not had the chance to learn more about this subject. This could affect their selfefficacy beliefs in teaching biology, which in turn may affect various aspects of the teaching procedure such as biology instruction time, as well as the achievement of students in biology, at the elementary level (Smolleck et al 2006).…”

Matemáticas guiadas y autoeficacia del docente en Belice

“…Las investigaciones internacionales se extienden a la psicométrica y validez del constructo (Chan, 2008a;Klassen et al, 2009;Klassen y Chiu, 2010;Vieluf, Kunter, y van de Vijver, 2013), y las relaciones transversales con otras variables o validez de los criterios (Bogler y Somech, 2004;Chan, 2008a;2008b;Gür, Çakiroglu, y Aydin, 2012;Smolleck, Zembal-Saul, y Yoder, 2006); igualmente incluyen investigaciones sobre la satisfacción laboral, la tenacidad de los docentes (Brouwers y Tomic, 2000;Bümen, 2010;Chan, 2007;Evers, Brouwers, y Tomic, 2002;Klassen y Chiu, 2010;Öztas y Dilmac, 2009;Schwarzer y Hallum, 2008), el género (Karimvand, 2011) y el conocimiento específico de las materias (Çakiroglu, Çakiroglu, y Boone, 2005).…”