Evidence for the validity of the Teachers’ Sense of Self-Efficacy Scale in a Spanish sample

  1. Bueno Álvarez, José Antonio
  2. Martín Martín, Margarita Carmen
  3. Navarro Asencio, Enrique
  4. Asensio Muñoz, Isabel Inmaculada
Journal:
Anales de psicología

ISSN: 0212-9728,  1695-2294

Year of publication: 2023

Volume: 39

Issue: 2

Pages: 252-264

Type: Article

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Abstract

Teachers’ sense of self-efficacy is a hard construct to measure but is important in view of to its relationship with the quality of education. This work aims to gather evidence regarding the consistency and validity of a version of the Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) for use in Spain. The data come from a Spanish group of future early-years, primary and high school teachers (N= 744), and they are analysed using a multivariate approach suitable for ordinal scales, with confirmatory factor analysis (ULSMV) and decision trees (CHAID and CART). After evaluating three measurement models, evidence for the validity of a construct structure with three factors and 17 items with acceptable fit indices is provided. In addition, the convergence and consistency of the construct are both en-dorsed, as is the usefulness of the items for predicting overall teacher self-efficacy in the groups ofundergraduate and master’s students in the sam-ple studied.

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