Design Principles for Improving Practice with Instructional Coaching
Category: Teacher and Leader Development
The Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) measures teachers' evaluations of how likely they are to be successful in teaching. TSES conceptualizes teaching as a complex activity and teacher efficacy as a multi-faceted construct representing at least three distinct factors: Efficacy for Classroom Management, Efficacy to promote Student Engagement, and Efficacy in using Instructional Strategies. It is designed for and has been used by researchers and school leaders to measure teacher self-efficacy at a particular point in time, as well as before and after participating in professional development programs. There is a short- and long-form version of the scale.
Content
Grades
Kindergarten,
4,
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade,
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Languages
English
Spanish
Chinese
Other Language/s
Arabic, French, Greek, Portuguese, Turkish
Respondent
Teacher
Administration Information
Length
Long form: 24 questions, short form: 12 questions
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Price
Free
Contact
Megan Tschannen-Moran, mxtsch@wm.edu
Open Access
Yes
Use in Research
Jamil, F., Downer, J., & Pianta, R. (2012). Association of pre-service teachers' performance, personality, and beliefs with teacher self-efficacy at program completion. Teacher Education Quarterly, 39(4), 119-138. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23479655
Moulding, L., Stewart, P., & Dunmeyer, M. (2014). Pre-service teachers' sense of efficacy: Relationship to academic ability, student teaching placement characteristics, and mentor support. Teaching and Teacher Education, 41, 60-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2014.03.007
Scherer, R., Jansen, M., Nilsen, T., Areepattamannil, S., & Marsh, H. W. (2016). The quest for comparability: Studying the invariance of the Teachers' Sense of Self-Efficacy (TSES) Measure across Countries. PLOS One, 11(3), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150829
Psychometrics
Scoring
Computer scoring
Manual scoring
Psychometric References
Duffin, L., French, B., & Patrick, H. (2012). The Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale: Confirming the factor structure with beginning pre-service teachers. Teaching and Teacher Education, 28(6), 827-834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2012.03.004
Ronfeldt, M., & Truwit, M. (2023). Considerations for use of teaching quality measures. EdInstruments Brief, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Brown University. www.edinstruments.com/teaching.
Scoring Directions: https://wmpeople.wm.edu/asset/index/mxtsch/scoringetcfortses
Tschannen-Moran, M., & Hoy, A. (2001). Teacher efficacy: Capturing an elusive construct. Teaching and Teacher Education, 17(7), 783-805. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0742-051X(01)00036-1
