Self-Efficacy of Teachers and Academic Performance of Students: A Correlational Study

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to find out the relationship of self-efficacy of teachers with performance of students in public secondary schools. The objectives of the study were; to identify the level of self-efficacy of teachers, and to find out the relationship of teachers self-efficacy with academic performance and also a correlation with respect to demographic variables. The study is delimited to secondary school teachers teaching in public sector secondary schools in Rawalpindi tehsil. The research was descriptive in nature, and the researcher used the survey method for this research. The population consists of all secondary school teachers and students in Public secondary schools of Rawalpindi. The researcher chose a sample of 150 teachers and same number of students of those teachers who were taken as sample. The researcher developed questionnaires (instruments) for teachers and students. The questionnaires were personally distributed by the researchers when they were on site at the sampled respondents' schools. They were given enough time to complete the forms honestly before returning them.  The SPSS-24 (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) program was used to tabulate, analyze, and interpret the data after it had been obtained. For demographic information, mean, standard deviation and Pearson correlation were used. The study found that there is a significant and positive correlation between teacher’s self-efficacy and performance of students at secondary level. The researcher recommended Education department schools to enhance the teachers’ level of self-efficacy.