Beyond the Grades: Measuring Teacher’s Efficacy for the Psychosocial Grooming of Students

Waqar Husain; Fayyaz Ahmed Faize; Javaria Urooj; Rabeya Tariq

doi:10.55982/openpraxis.15.1.540

Beyond the Grades: Measuring Teacher’s Efficacy for the Psychosocial Grooming of Students

Open Praxis

Volume 15 (2023): Issue 1

By: Waqar Husain , Fayyaz Ahmed Faize , Javaria Urooj and Rabeya Tariq

Open Access

|May 2023

Abstract

The true spirit of education involves psychosocial grooming and character building of learners. Teacher’s efficacy plays a vital role in achieving educational objectives. The effectiveness of teachers is usually evaluated through the academic grades of their students. Teacher’s efficacy, however, is originally the ability of a teacher to improve the cognitive functioning and humanistic values of students. The current study developed and validated a new scale entitled the Qualiquant Teacher’s Efficacy Scale (QTES) by involving 147 teachers and 59 students. The sample was selected thru a mixed method that involved convenient and purposive sampling techniques. QTES reflected strong validity and excellent reliability thru exploratory factor analysis, Cronbach’s alpha, item-scale, and item-total correlations. QTES is a unique measure for teacher’s efficacy because it defines teacher’s efficacy through cognitive functioning and humanistic values, offers two parallel and separate versions for teachers and students, and quantifies the qualitative data.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.15.1.540 | Journal eISSN: 2304-070X

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Language: English

Page range: 60 - 72

Submitted on: Dec 19, 2022

Accepted on: Apr 5, 2023

Published on: May 9, 2023

Published by: International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)

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Keywords:

Teacher’s efficacy,

teacher’s performance,

teacher’s evaluation,

teaching outcome,

educational objectives

© 2023 Waqar Husain, Fayyaz Ahmed Faize, Javaria Urooj, Rabeya Tariq, published by International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
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