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Teacher Efficacy: A Construct Validation With Alternative High School Teachers: A Replication, Lisa Marie Bries
Teacher Efficacy: A Construct Validation With Alternative High School Teachers: A Replication, Lisa Marie Bries
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The purpose of this study was to replicate phase one of Gibson and Dembo's (1984) construct validation study of the Teacher Efficacy Scale with alternative high school instructors. Replication of Gibson and Dembo's factor analytic structure of this instrument with alternative educators would provide a basis upon which to make comparisons between regular and alternative educators' self efficacy.
Subjects for the study were 77 alternative educators in a rural midwestern state. Each alternative teacher taught in the continuation school model of alternative education which addressed the needs of dropout youth and students identified as being in danger of dropping out. …