Prospective Teachers' Sense of Efficacy and Beliefs about Control.

Y

11

Academic Achievement; Bureaucracy; College Students; Correlation; Education Majors; Factor Analysis; Higher Education; Liberal Arts; Predictor Variables; Self Efficacy; Student Attitudes; Student Motivation; Teacher Education; Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher Role

0022-0663

Structure and meaning of efficacy were examined for 182 prospective teachers, and efficacy was related to beliefs about control and motivation. Results support competing formulations of efficacy as teacher efficacy and personal efficacy. Interaction of these factors makes important contributions to prediction of pupil control ideology and bureaucratic orientation. (SLD)

1992

EJ442297