The influence of demographic variables on self-efficacy beliefs of senior high school teachers in Kumasi metropolis
The influence of demographic variables on self-efficacy beliefs of senior high school teachers in Kumasi metropolis
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2015
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Amankwah, Francis
Aboagye, Daniel Oti
Konin, Daniel
Sam, Francis K.
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The influence of demographic variables on self-efficacy beliefs
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The paper explored the influence of age, gender, educational qualification, school type
and teaching experience on sense of self-efficacy beliefs among Senior High School
(SHS) teachers in Kumasi metropolis of Ghana. Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale
(TSES) developed by Tschannen-Moran and Woolfolk Hoy (2001) was personally
administered to collect data from 437 respondents who were randomly selected for the
study. From the Spearman correlation analysis, it was revealed that teachers’ age,
educational qualification and school type significantly correlated with their self efficacy beliefs. Moreover, regression analysis conducted shown that the 5 demographic
variables when taken together had significant effects on the teachers’ sense of efficacy;
however teachers’ educational qualification made the strongest significant contribution
to their self-efficacy beliefs. Among other things, it was recommended that longitudinal
studies should be conducted to track the changes in teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs over
time.
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Sam, F. K., Konin, D., Amankwah, F., & Aboagye, D. O. (2015). The influence of demographic variables on self-efficacy beliefs of senior high school teachers in Kumasi Metropolis.