Journal Articles

Hong Kong student teachers' personal construction of teaching efficacy

Title:
Hong Kong student teachers' personal construction of teaching efficacy
Authors:
- Yeung, Ka Wah Hong Kong Institute of Education
- Watkins, David University of Hong Kong
Source:
Educational Psychology, 20(2), 213-235, 2000
Publisher:
Routledge
Year Published:
2000
Education Categories:
Keywords:
Educational Research Foreign Countries Higher Education Interviews Preservice Teacher Education Self Efficacy Student Teacher Attitudes Student Teachers Teaching (Occupation) Teaching Experience Hong Kong
Region:
- Hong Kong
Period:
- 1997.7 onwards
Level:
- Post-Secondary Education
Abstract:
This study employed the repertory grid technique to investigate how a sample of 27 student teachers in Hong Kong developed a personal sense of teaching efficacy. The analysis indicated that the third year students' perceptions were more homogenous than were those of the first year students. The results also indicated that teaching efficacy was viewed in terms of the dimensions of concern for instructional participation and learning needs of pupils, communication and relationships with pupils, academic knowledge and teaching skills, lesson preparation, management of class discipline, teaching success, teaching commitment, and a sense of self-confidence. Experiences of teaching practice, electives, pupils, and teaching practice supervisors (Electives) were the major sources for the development of a sense of teaching efficacy. Implications of how those aspects of teacher training can be more effective in engendering a sense of efficacy in the student teachers are discussed.
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Language:
- English
Document Type:
Journal Articles
ISSN:
- 01443410
DOI:
- 10.1080/01443410050027982
Permalink:
https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/059175d7
Entry Date:
2010-09-08