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Publication Date: 2021
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"Am I to Blame?" Teacher Self-Efficacy and Attributional Beliefs towards Students with Specific Learning Disabilities
Woodcock, Stuart; Faith, Ellie
Teacher Development, v25 n2 p215-238 2021
This study of 105 Australian in-service teachers investigated the relationship between teacher self-efficacy and teachers' causal beliefs towards students with and without specific learning disabilities. Results found that teachers reporting higher levels of teacher self-efficacy provided more positive feedback, less frustration, and held lower expectations of future failure towards all students, regardless of students' ability levels, effort expenditure, or the presence of a specific learning disability. Additionally, teachers reporting higher levels of teacher self-efficacy displayed greater sympathy towards students who expended low effort. The findings suggest that teachers with higher levels of teacher self-efficacy may undertake a teacher-intrapersonal causal search to explain student underachievement, in comparison to teachers with lower levels of teacher self-efficacy who may undertake an interpersonal causal search.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Beliefs, Learning Disabilities, Feedback (Response), Teacher Expectations of Students, Caring, Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, Attribution Theory, High School Teachers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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