Conference Session

NEE 2 - Strategies to Improve Teaching Effectiveness

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna Wright, University of Washington; Lauren N. Summers, University of Washington; Denise Wilson, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

one’s capacity to organize and execute the courses of action required to produce givenattainments” (p. 3) [22]. Bandura identified four primary sources of self-efficacy: masteryexperiences, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion and physiological states [23]. Self-efficacybeliefs have been understood to be strong predictors of behavior [24].Self-efficacy beliefs are not inherent or global traits of an individual; rather, they are “active andlearned systems of belief held in context” (p. 754) [25]. Thus, an instructor may feel high levelsof teacher self-efficacy in particular teaching tasks or domains and lower levels of teacher self-efficacy in others. Scales used for measuring teacher self-efficacy ask teachers to rate their levelof