Date of Award
2018
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Psychology
Abstract
secondary Education, and dual-licensed teachers at the secondary level. Secondary general Education teachers may lack the pedagogical knowledge necessary to accommodate for students with special needs; special Education teachers may lack the competence in content to ensure students with special needs are mastering the required standards. Co-teaching partnerships allow students to be educated in an environment that includes teacher expertise in both areas—a general educator for content-specific instruction and a special educator for data collection and accommodation expertise. This quantitative survey research explored the impact that co-teaching has on teacher efficacy within the co-taught classroom and the stand-alone classroom for general Education teachers, special Education teachers, and dual-licensed teachers at the secondary level. Quantitative statistics were used to determine if co-teaching impacted teacher efficacy in the constructs of student engagement, instructional strategies, and classroom management. When a repeated-measures t-test for non-independent samples was conducted, the study found that there was a significant difference in teacher efficacy between the stand-alone classroom and the co-taught classroom in the constructs of student engagement, instructional strategies, and classroom management for general Education teachers and teachers who are dual-licensed. While efficacy is higher in the co-taught classroom than in the stand-alone classroom for teachers with a special Education license, a significant difference did not exist.
Recommended Citation
Katz, Lori A., "The Impact Of Co-Teaching On Teacher Efficacy" (2018). All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1760.
https://scholars.indianastate.edu/etds/1760