An Experimental Evaluation of the Effect of Instructional Consultation Teams on Teacher Efficacy: A Multivariate, Multilevel Examination

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dc.contributor.advisorGottfredson, Garyen_US
dc.contributor.authorKoehler, Jessica Robynen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCounseling and Personnel Servicesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-02T05:30:05Z
dc.date.available2010-07-02T05:30:05Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractTeacher efficacy, the extent to which teachers feel they can influence student learning (Berman, McLaughlin, Bass, Pauly, & Zellman, 1977), has been repeatedly linked to important student and teacher outcomes (Gibson & Dembo, 1984). Although the results of many studies support the claim that teacher efficacy is an important educational construct, few studies have investigated interventions to influence these teacher beliefs. The current study evaluated whether a specific teacher intervention, Instructional Consultation Teams (IC Teams), positively affected teachers' sense of self-efficacy as measured by two efficacy instruments. Participants included 1203 in-service elementary school teachers in 34 elementary schools within a large suburban school district--17 randomly assigned to the IC Team intervention and 17 assigned to the control condition. Because teachers are nested within schools, hierarchical linear modeling was utilized to evaluate whether scores on measures of teacher self-efficacy were influenced by IC Teams. A multivariate model was also used to evaluate the effects of IC Teams on both measures, simultaneously. The results imply that IC Teams significantly increased teachers' scores on the efficacy scales. The current study provides one of a few attempts to evaluate the effects of a specific school intervention on teacher efficacy within an experimental framework.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/10210
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducation, Educational Psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledInstructional Consultationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledInstructional Consultation Teamsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMultilevel modelingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTeacher beliefsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTeacher efficacyen_US
dc.titleAn Experimental Evaluation of the Effect of Instructional Consultation Teams on Teacher Efficacy: A Multivariate, Multilevel Examinationen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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