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Correlation Between Teacher Efficacy And Effective Professional Learning Communities, David Glen Gilliam
Correlation Between Teacher Efficacy And Effective Professional Learning Communities, David Glen Gilliam
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High levels of teacher efficacy are consistently identified as having a strong impact on student achievement. This is reasoned by Donohoo (2016) as “If educators’ realities are filtered through the belief that they can do very little to influence student achievement, then it is very likely these beliefs will be manifested in their practice” (p. 7). Conversely, when educators believe they influence student achievement the results are very positive. Hattie (2016) indicates that a strong collective efficacy is the greatest single factor that influences student achievement.
The questions addressed by this study examine the relationships between teachers’ collective-efficacy and professional …