The relationships between students' evalautions of teaching behaviors and self efficacy Beliefs

Abstract

Students' evaluations have been linked to the important academic outcomes such as achievement and satisfaction. However, its effect on self efficacy is unknown. The primary purpose of this study was to adopt The Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) to Turkish, and to determine which aspects of teaching behaviors are more closely related to students' self efficacy beliefs. The sample was 586 students in department of Education. There was a significant correlation between self efficacy and students' evaluation, and the self efficacy beliefs were most closely related to good teaching and teacher's ability to organize instruction in a clear way. © 2009.