Effect of Teacher Efficacy on Professional Development of Higher Secondary School Teachers of Kerala

Abstract

This study was conducted to find out the effect of teacher efficacy on professional development of higher secondary school teachers of Kerala, India. For this 350 teachers were selected through stratified random sampling. Teacher efficacy scale and questionnaire of professional development of higher secondary school teachers were used for collecting the data. The t test has been applied to test the significance of difference between mean scores of teacher efficacy and professional development based on gender, type of school management and experience. The result revealed that there are significant differences between male and female teachers, government and private school teachers and more experienced and less experienced teachers in the mean scores of professional development. Similarly,teacher efficacy of government and private school teachers is significantly different. Teacher efficacy of male and female teachers and more experienced and less experienced are not significantly different. It was further revealed that there is no significant effect of teacher efficacy on professional development of teachers. It was concluded that no significant difference exists between the groups with regard to their professional development.