Predicting teachers' achievement goals for teaching: The role of perceived school goal structure and teachers' sense of efficacy

• Published in: Teaching and teacher education Vol. 32; pp. 12 - 21
• Main Authors: Cho, YoonJung, Shim, Sungok Serena
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.05.2013; Elsevier
• Subjects: Academic Achievement; Achievement goal for teaching; Efficacy; Goal Orientation; Goals; Mastery Learning; Multiple Regression Analysis; Online Surveys; Perception; Personal goals; Prediction; Role; School goal structure; Self Efficacy; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher's sense of efficacy; Teachers; Teaching; School goal structure; Achievement goal for teaching; Teacher's sense of efficacy
• ISSN: 0742-051X; 1879-2480
• DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2012.12.003

The present study investigated contextual and personal factors associated with teachers' achievement goals for teaching. A total of 211 teachers completed an online survey. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses revealed that perceived school mastery goal structure and performance goal structure predicted teachers' mastery goals and performance-approach goals, respectively. Teachers' sense of efficacy moderated the effect of perceived school goal structures on achievement goals for teaching. Teachers with high teaching efficacy maintained personal achievement goals for teaching even when their schools emphasized conflicting goals. However, teachers with low teaching efficacy tended to assimilate the goals promoted by their schools. ► School mastery goal structure predicted mastery goals for teaching. ► School performance goal structure predicted performance-approach goals for teaching. ► Teachers' sense of efficacy moderated the effect of goal structure on teacher goals.