A Study of Self ? Efficacy among Elementary School Teachers

Suman Preet Kaur, Dr. Surjit Singh Puar

Abstract: The success of educational system lies on the shoulders of the teacher. Teacher plays a vital role in the curriculum transaction of the various factors that affect the ability of the teacher. Self -efficacy has been recognized as an important variable. The present study has been designed to study the perceived self-efficacy of government elementary school teachers of Punjab in relation to their gender, location, experience and educational qualifications. A sample of 815 elementary school teachers was collected by using multi-stage random sampling technique from six districts of Punjab selected on the basis of their high & low literacy rates. The translated version of General Self-efficacy scale by Jerusalem and Schwarzer (1995) was used. The results revealed that Gender, locale, experience and education qualifications do not have any significant impact on self efficacy of Elementary school teachers.

Keywords: Self?efficacy, Elementary school Teachers, Gender, locale, experience and Educational qualifications.