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Academic Optimism of Individual Teachers: Confirming a New Construct
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Beard, Karen Stansberry; Hoy, Wayne K.; Hoy, Anita Woolfolk – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
Teacher sense of academic optimism is individual teachers' beliefs that they can teach effectively, their students can learn, and parents will support them so the teacher can press hard for learning. This new construct is grounded in the social cognitive and self-efficacy theories, social capital theory, work on school culture and climate and…
Descriptors: School Culture, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy, Factor Analysis