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The Impact Of Collective Teacher Efficacy On Student Achievement In High School Science, Mark W. Burcham Jan 2009

The Impact Of Collective Teacher Efficacy On Student Achievement In High School Science, Mark W. Burcham

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This dissertation was designed to examine the impact of collective teacher efficacy on high school science achievement by looking at relationships among collective teacher efficacy, its two constructs, group competence and group task analysis, and high school science achievement scores at four rural high schools in Northwestern North Carolina.

The researcher gathered historical test data from the testing coordinator from the school system and then administered the Collective Teacher Efficacy Instrument, developed by Goddard, Hoy, and Woolfolk Hoy (2000), to 24 science teachers from the four high schools. Using this information, the researcher conducted statistical analyses to determine the relationships …