• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.519-537
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• 2014

Teacher efficacy influences teacher's own behaviors in class and students outcomes such as achievement, motivation and their own self-efficacy. In recent years, self efficacy and teacher efficacy are becoming more popular in many educational aspects. Teacher efficacy depends on him/her and each tasks and goals. Therefore, we need special instrument for measuring mathematics teacher efficacy. On this study, we derived educationally meaningful factors on mathematics teacher efficacy from previous literature. We developed Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Instrument(MTEI) consisted of 30 items with 6-point Likert scale. The six factors are as follows; mathematics teaching efficacy expectancy, mathematics teaching outcome expectancy, mathematics teaching content knowledge, teacher belief on their own students, the past mathematics learning experience for teacher own, influence from social-cultural environment.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.443-460
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• 2017

The aim of this study was to develop and validate a mathematics teaching efficacy scale for South Korean Elementary Teachers. The sample was consisted of 300 elementary teachers in South Korea. A total of 13 items were developed and examined for internal consistence. The results of this study showed that the proposed scale was appropriate to represent mathematics teaching efficacy of elementary teachers.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.75-93
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is for investing and analysing elementary teachers' efficacy on teaching mathematics. It was measured by Kang & Kim(2014)'s instrument; MTEI (Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Instrument). The survey was conducted on a sample of 183 participants. The findings of this study are that mathematics teaching efficacy of elementary school teachers in South Korea is 64 percent based on 100 percent. There was no significant difference between women teachers and men teachers. Teachers who have taught longer than 5 years and less than 10 years have the lowest mathematics teaching efficacy. Teachers who were major in Mathematics have higher mathematics teaching efficacy than non-major in Mathematics. In addition, chances of training about mathematics make their efficacy higher.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.1-18
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• 2021

The purpose of the study was to examine the psychometric properties of the personal teaching efficacy of the Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Beliefs Instrument and revise the scale for the use of Korean elementary school teachers. Data were collected from 299 elementary teachers. A Rasch analysis was used to evaluate unidimensionality and appropriateness of category use and item difficulty levels. Moreover, person separation and reliability as well as item separation and reliability were examined using the revised scale. Results suggested that the original personal teaching efficacy scale (13 items with five categories) had several problems in its psychometric properties. Thus, we revised the scale into eight items with four categories. The follow-up analysis results showed the revised scale provided sufficient psychometric properties for measuring Korean elementary school teachers' self-efficacy beliefs for teaching mathematics. Limitations and implications of the study were also discussed.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.649-666
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a teaching mathematics anxiety scale for elementary teachers in South Korea. The sample consisted of 150 elementary teachers in 22 elementary schools in Seoul. A total of 21 items were developed and examined for the internal consistence. The results showed that the proposed scale was appropriate to represent the teaching mathematics anxiety of elementary teachers.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.35-53
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is for investing and analysing preservice elementary mathematics teachers' efficacy on teaching mathematics. It was measured by Kang & Kim(2014)'s instrument; MTEI (Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Instrument). The survey was conducted on a sample of 164 participants who are the 2 or 4 grade in 3 universities of education. The findings of this study are that mathematics teaching efficacy of preservice elementary mathematics teachers in South Korea is 61 percent based on 100 percent. There was no significant difference between women teachers and men teachers, department of natural science and art & humanity when highschool, 2 grade and 4 grade. But, there was the significant difference between big city and province. The social-cultural factor point was much lower than any other factors' point.

• Korean Journal of Child Education & Care
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.49-63
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• 2017

This study aims to investigate the effect of early childhood teachers' mathematical attitude on their mathematics teaching efficacy and to prove the moderating role of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in mathematics, which we selected based upon previous literatures. To explore the effect of early childhood teachers' mathematical attitude on their mathematics teaching efficacy and the moderating role of PCK in mathematics between them, This study randomly sampled 500 early childhood teachers who work at child care centers and kindergartens in Seoul, Kyunggi province and Kangwon province and collected their responses by questionnaires. Mathematics teaching efficacy was measured with mathematics teaching efficacy scale for early childhood teachers developed by Luo (2000) and translated by Jung (2001a). Mathematical attitude was measured with Smith (2000)'s scale which we translated for this study. To measure the pedagogical content knowledge in mathematics, we revised Hong(2012)'s scale to be applicable for early childhood teachers. Direct effect of mathematical attitude on mathematics teaching efficacy and the moderating effect of PCK in mathematics were analyzed by multiple regression analysis using IBM SPSS 21.0. Study results demonstrated the significant direct effect of mathematical attitude on mathematics teaching efficacy. Also, the moderating effect of PCK in mathematics was also proved to be significant. That is, if the teacher has high level of pedagogical content knowledge in mathematics, the positive effect of mathematical attitude on mathematics teaching efficacy was even more enhanced. This results supports the current finding where PCK in mathematics functions as a moderating variable between mathematical attitude and mathematics teaching efficacy. Thus, our study is expected to provide relevant contents that should be covered during teacher education, which aims to improve early childhood teachers' mathematics teaching efficacy.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.52 no.2
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• pp.231-245
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• 2013

MTEBI는 미국에서 초등 예비 교사들의 수학 교수 효능감을 측정하는데 자주 이용되는 척도이다. 이 연구의 목적은 MTEBI를 한국의 중등 예비 교사들에게 사용하는 것이 적합한지를 탐색하는 것이었다. 이를 위하여, 미국에 있는 대학원에 다니며 영어와 국어 둘 다 말할 수 있는 박사 학생 두 명이 MTEBI를 브리슬린의 이론대로 국문으로 번역하였고, 그 뒤에 한국에 있는 다수의 수학 교사 교육자들이 번역된 척도를 면밀하게 검토하였다. 한글판 척도를 먼저 작은 표본에서 초벌 실험하였는데, 두 개 문항이 도구의 신뢰도와 타당도를 현저하게 떨어뜨렸다. 본 연구에서는 이 두 개의 유용하지 못한 문항을 대신할 두 개 문항을 더한 23개 문항으로 구성된 척도에 대하여 정규성, 신뢰도, 요인 타당도 등을 658명의 표본에서 검사하였다. 초벌 연구에서 발견된 두 개의 유효하지 않는 문항은 본 연구에서도 역시 그와 같아서, 그 두 문항은 척도에서 제거되었다. 최종적으로 얻어진 21 문항 척도는 한국의 예비 수학 교사들의 수학 교수 효능감을 측정하는데 적합한 척도이다. 앞으로, MTEBI 한글판을 이용하여 한국에서 교사 효능감에 대한 연구가 활발하게 일어나기를 기대한다.

• School Mathematics
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.337-352
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of teaching methods among elementary school math teachers in terms of student achievement in examinations. Results are based upon data from two elementary schools. The evaluation criteria of fifteen items was modified from Ryang's original MTEBI sixteen items to measure elementary school teachers' math teaching efficacy. The result of this study could be summarized as follows. The students were divided into two groups according to teaching efficiency: higher teaching efficiency and lower teaching efficiency. A comparison of math tests taken by students from these groups demonstrates a significant statistical difference. Students with teachers in the lower efficiency group are likely to under-perform. In consequence, teachers' self-efficiency in math is considered to affect students' learning achievement in mathematics.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.34 no.7
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• pp.693-701
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• 2014

Based on social cognitive theory, self-efficacy in the context of learning has been steadily emphasized as an indicator of students' motivation and performance. The premise for developing such an instrument was that a specific measure of Physics self-efficacy was deemed to be an important predictor of the change processes necessary to improve students' physics understanding. In this study we described the process of developing and validating an instrument to measure students' beliefs in their abilities to perform essential tasks in physics and then investigated high school students' self-efficacy about physics learning and performance. Validity and reliability of PSEI were tested using various statistical techniques including the Cronbach alpha coefficient, exploratory factor analysis. The result of factor analysis supported the contention that the Physics Self-Efficacy Inventory (PSEI) was a multidimensional construct consisting of at least four dimensions: understanding and application of Physics concepts, achievement motivation, confidence for physics laboratory, confidence for Mathematics. The result showed that Kroean high schools students have low Physics self-efficacy for the all four dimensions. Therefore, researchers should focus on development of students' Physics self-efficacy. In addition, the instrument may lead to further understanding of student behavior, which in turn can facilitate the development of strategies that may increase students' aspiration to understand and study Physics. More specifically, by using the PSEI as a pre- and post-test indicator, instructors can gain insight into whether students' confidence levels increase as they engage in learning Physics, and, in addition, what type of teaching strategies are most effective in building deeper understanding of Physics concepts.where they freely exchanged opinions and feedback for constructing better collective ideas.