LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 10 October 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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Determining Factors Affecting Teachers’ Self-Efficacy at Secondary School Level

Tayyaba Shazadi, M.A., Sufiana Khatoon, Ph.D., Shamsa Aziz, Ph.D., and Hamid Hassan, Ph.D.

Abstract

The present research was designed to explore the self-efficacy of secondary school teachers. The main objective of the study was to find out the effect of age, gender, qualification and teaching experience on the self-efficacy of secondary school teachers. Albert Bandura’s self-efficacy scale was used. The population of the study was all the secondary school teachers working under Federal Directorate of Education Islamabad. Ten percent teachers from each of the five sectors of Federal Directorate of Islamabad were taken as sample of the study through stratified random sampling. Three experts validated the instrument. The reliability of the instrument was calculated which was (0.896). t test was used to find out the difference between two groups, one way ANOVA was used to find out the difference among more than two groups. The findings of the study revealed that gender, academic qualification, experience and locality significantly affect the self-efficacy, but age and professional qualification have no significant affect on the self-efficacy of secondary school teachers

Keywords: self-efficacy, secondary school teachers

Introduction

Self is the core of one’s conscious existence. Awareness of self can be referred to an individual’s self-concept. When people are “getting in touch with self”, it means they are trying to have a self-concept. Kreitner and Kinichi (2007) said that we know our self because we have self-concept. Due to this self-concept we are distinct human beings. With out having the capacity to think we cannot have a self-concept ( Victor Gecas as cited by Kreitner and kinichi 2007) while Kreitner and Kinichi (2007) presented their opinion about self –concept, that it is the idea an “individual has of himself as a physical, social and moral being”. According to the Halonen & Santrock (1996) describe self emerges through an individual’s experience with the world. It is “I” or “Me” of human existence.

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Tayyaba Shazadi,M.A.
Garrison Academy, Lahore, Pakistan
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Sufiana Khatoon, Ph.D.
National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Shamsa Aziz, Ph.D. International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan
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Hamid Hassan, Ph.D.
Federal College of Education Islamabad, Pakistan
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