Do ratings of self-efficacy change with teaching experience?
Method Subjects Subjects were eighteen undergraduate music majors at a southern university who were between twenty and twenty-one years old. The setting was an internship program that provides instruction in stringed instruments to community children while providing teaching experience to the university students. University students are selected for the program based on their entrance audition and interest in teaching. The average length of teaching experience prior to the beginning of data collection was less than one semester. The script, which was read by graduate students prior to each administration of the Teacher Efficacy Scale, assured them the results of the study would have no influence on any other aspect of their teach education program. Summary results were made available to all subjects during the following academic year. Preservice teachers were given the option of participating in the study. At the time of the study, there were twenty-five teachers in the community progr
