Starting strong? A quantitative investigation of differences in teacher self-efficacy among first-year pre-service teachers
Pål Arild Lagestad
IntroductionSeveral studies have examined the relationship between gender, age, teaching experience and teachers' self-efficacy. However, the present study is, to the authors' knowledge, the first to investigate how gender, age and teaching experience relate to the self-efficacy of first-year pre-service teachers upon entry into teacher education programmes.MethodsA total of 108 students from Nord University in Norway participated in a quantitative survey.ResultsStatistical analyses revealed no