What predicts instructional quality and commitments to teaching: self-efficacy, pedagogical knowledge or integration of the two?

ABSTRACT: The aim of the paper is to identify different groups of in-service teachers based on their general pedagogical knowledge (GPK) and self-efficacy beliefs and to explore potential differences among these groups regarding their instructional quality and commitments to teaching. A sample of 161 in-service subject teachers (science, mathematics, or Estonian language) who taught in lower secondary schools in Estonia were included in the study. Data was collected with a GPK test and self-reported questionnaires on instructional quality and commitments to teaching in the context of an OECD Teacher Knowledge Survey. Based on the cluster analysis, three groups of in-service teachers were identified: "the over-confident" teachers with average self-efficacy and very low GPK, "the competent" teachers w

SUBMITTER: Leijen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10860407 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature