A Probe into the Sense of Efficacy of the Teacher Educators of Self-Financed B.Ed. Colleges

Abstract

Self-efficacy is a particular set of beliefs that determines a person’s ability to complete a plan of action (Bandura, 1977). It is a capability to produce desired results and judgements about one’s ability to do a certain things. Teachers’ sense of efficacy refers to their determination and belief in their ability to accomplish important teaching tasks. Sense of efficacy play an important role in improving teachers’ teaching and ultimately student outcomes. To find out the status of sense of efficacy of the teacher educators, Teachers Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) (Tschannen-Moran & Woolfolk Hoy, 2001) was administered on a random sample of 305 teacher educators of self-financed B.Ed. colleges of South 24 Parganas. It was reflected from the result that male teacher educators expressed their very high sense of efficacy and female teacher educators exposed high sense of efficacy; and male teacher educators manifested their (statistically) significantly higher sense of efficacy than the female teacher educators. It may be concluded that the teacher educators, irrespective of gender have very high sense of efficacy.