Educational Psychology

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Questions

➢ Think about your own belief in your capacity to teach well, as well as your doubts and

worries about your capacity. You might call this your teaching self-efficacy. What is

that belief primarily based on, and what would it take to raise that belief even higher?

➢ Suppose your students consisted of about equal numbers who believed in individual self-

efficacy and in collective self-efficacy. Imagine and describe one advantage of having such

a mix in your class, as well as one potential source of conflict that you might have to deal

with between the two groups.

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Mau, W.-C. (2003). Factors that influence persistence in science and engineering career aspirations. Career

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