A belief in his or her ability to execute the courses of action needed to

positively affect performance.

-Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of theUniversity of Maryland, College Park

*A cognitive motivational construct that involves two components, outcome expectancy and self-efficacy. Outcome expectancy involved the belief that an individual holds regarding the specific results accruing from a particular action.

Whereas, self-efficacy  pertain to beliefs regarding personal competency to affect or execute a given task. 

Bandura (1977))

(3) (3) verbal persuasion verbal persuasion that others might use that others might use to help convince an individual that he to help convince an individual that he possesses the ability to perform a certain possesses the ability to perform a certain task; task;

(4) and (4) and physiological and affective states physiological and affective states that serve as another indicator of capability.that serve as another indicator of capability.

One must believe that his behaviors can effect the education of their students.

He must recognize that he has the capacity and power to make key decisions which will effect his role and students’ production.

The key focus must be on determining how to bring about and sustain wide-spread teacher sense of efficacy.

He needs to feel competent to do the job and be assured that the system is capable of supporting his role.