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The Relationship Between Teacher Sense Of Efficacy And Pupil Control Ideology In Urban Middle Schools, Thomas Hall Beatty
The Relationship Between Teacher Sense Of Efficacy And Pupil Control Ideology In Urban Middle Schools, Thomas Hall Beatty
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The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher sense of efficacy and its relationship to pupil control ideology in urban middle schools. The following questions were investigated: (1) Among urban middle school teachers, what is the relationship between their level of self-efficacy for teaching and their pupil control ideology? (2) Are female middle school teachers more or less efficacious than male middle school teachers? (3) Are female middle school teachers more or less humanistic than male middle school teachers?;The study included middle school teachers from 4 urban school divisions in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Teachers from 13 middle schools …