A study on the relationship between teachers’ professional developmentand self-efficacy of elementary school teachers in Chang-Hua County

• Main Authors: Tsung-Hsien Lin, 林宗賢
• Other Authors: Fu-shun Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27258569120449751199

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 成人及繼續教育所 === 97 === The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between teachers’ professional development and self-efficacy of elementary school teachers in Chang-Hua County. Questionnaire survey was conducted in this study. The subjects included 510 teachers randomly drawn in Chang-Hua County.The valid questionnaires retrieved were 451 copies. These collected data were analyzed through Descriptive Statistics, Independent-Samples t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson''s product-moment correlation analysis. The results of this study were as follows 1) The perception of the elementary school teachers’ professional development in Chang-Hua County was upper intermediate. 2) The perception of the elementary school teachers’ self-efficacy in Chang-Hua County was just above average. 3) Concerns the background factors with the elementary school teachers’ professional development, including age, seniority, education level and school scale. 4) Concerns the background factors with the elementary school teachers’ self-efficacy, including age, seniority and school scale. 5) Data analyses indicated a significant relationship existed between “the professional development” and “the self-efficacy”. According to the results of this study, offers the substantial suggestion that professional development level is an important factor influencing self-efficacy of elementary school teachers for educational administration agencies, schools, elementary school teachers and future researches.