TEACHER’S SELF CONFIDENCE AND SELF EFFICACY AS PREDICTORS OF THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN CREATIVE TEACHING IN BIOLOGY IN SECONDARY SCHOOL IN AKOKO NORTH EAST
Abstract
Teachers have a wide range impacts on the learning process of students studying
Biology in secondary school while Teaching has become a very important
profession the development of the teaching is closely linked to the efficacies and
personal characteristics of teachers. This research assessed teacher’s selfconfidence and self-efficacy as predictor of their improvement in creative teaching
in Biology for the purpose of study, three research questions were raised and three
hypotheses were formulated to guide the study while the study.
Descriptive research design of the survey type was adopted. A sample of one
hundred (100) Biology teachers were randomly selected in secondary school in
Akoko North East, the instrument used for data collection was a self-structured
questionnaire which was developed by the researcher and was duly validated with
face & content validity and reliability index of the instrument yield 0.80 the data
collected were presented in tables and analyzed using frequency count percentage
and t-test for hypotheses.
The result shows the t-calculated value of .213 was less than t- table value of
1.386. Therefore, hypothesis 1 was accepted t(120) = 0.213; p
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