+Bandura’s Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale
Bandura (1997)
Topic: Self-Evaluations - Self-Efficacy
Description of measure:
This questionnaire is designed to help us gain a better understanding of the kinds of things that create difficulties for teachers in their school activities.
Response options:
(1) Nothing, (3) Very Little, (5) Some Influence, (7) Quite A Bit, (9) A Great Deal.
Items:
Efficacy to Influence Decision making
- How much can you influence the decisions that are made in the school?
- How much can you express your views freely on important school matters?
Efficacy to influence School Resources
- How much can you do to get the instructional materials and equipment you need?
Instructional Self-Efficacy
- How much can you do to influence the class size in your school?
- How much can you do to get through to the most difficult student?
- How much can you do to promote learning when there is lack of support from the home?
- How much can you do to keep students on task on difficult assignments?
- How much can you do to increase students’ memory of what they have been taught in previous lessons?
- How much can you do to motivate students who show low interest in schoolwork?
- How much can you do to get students to work together?
- How much can you do to overcome the influence of adverse community conditions on students’ learning?
- How much can you do to get children to do their homework?
Disciplinary Self-Efficacy
- How much can you do to get children to follow classroom rules?
- How much can you do to control disruptive behavior in the classroom?
- How much can you do to prevent problem behavior on the school grounds?
Efficacy to Enlist Parental Involvement
- How much can you do to get parents to become involved in school activities?
- How much can you assist parents in helping their children do well in school?
- How much can you do to make parents feel comfortable coming to school?
Efficacy to Enlist Community Involvement
- How much can you do to get community groups involved in working with the schools?
- How much can you do to get churches involved in working with the school?
- How much can you do to get businesses involved in working with the school?
- How much can you do to get local colleges and universities involved in working with the school?
Efficacy to create a positive school climate
- How much can you do to make the school a safe place?
- How much can you do to make students enjoy coming to school?
- How much can you do to get students to trust teachers?
- How much can you help other teachers with their teaching skills?
- How much can you do to enhance collaboration between teachers and the administration to make the school run effectively?
- How much can you do to reduce school dropout?
- How much can you do to reduce school absenteeism?
- How much can you do to get students to believe they can do well in schoolwork?
Citation:
Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. New York, NY.