Design Principles for Improving Practice with Instructional Coaching
Category: Teacher and Leader Development
Instrument Overview
Developed by Tschannen-Moran and Woolfolk Hoy in 2001, the Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) measures teachers’ beliefs in their ability to influence student engagement, instructional strategies, and classroom management. The scale is available in both a long (24-item) and short (12-item) form and has been used with both pre-service and in-service teachers.
Grounded in Bandura’s social cognitive theory, the scale originally identified a three-factor structure corresponding to key domains of teaching efficacy: student engagement, instructional practices, and classroom management.
However, a 2012 confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) study by Duffin, French, and Patrick examining the TSES with beginning pre-service teachers found strong support for a unidimensional structure. While both one-factor and three-factor models showed good fit, high inter-factor correlations (above 0.8) indicated that early-stage pre-service teachers may not distinguish between the different aspects of teaching efficacy. For this population, the researchers recommend using the total TSES score rather than subscale scores.
Organization
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
Kindergarten,
1st Grade,
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade,
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Keywords
Schooling ; Teaching ; Teacher Self-Efficacy ; Classroom management efficacy ; Student engagement efficacy ; Instructional strategies efficacy
Languages
Arabic,
French,
Greek,
Turkish,
Portuguese
Respondent
Teacher
Administration Information
Length
Long form: 24 questions, short form: 12 questions
Administration
Paper
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
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
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
