Professional Learning Experiences That Affect Self-efficacy Beliefs and Achievement Goal Orientation...

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" Professional Learning Experiences That Affect Self-efficacy Beliefs and Achievement Goal Orientations of Kindergarten Teachers in Kuwait "
Alazemi, Nadeyah Koul, Ravinder

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1104694
Doc. No	:	TLpq2244404844
Main Entry	:	Alazemi, Nadeyah
	:	Koul, Ravinder
Title & Author	:	Professional Learning Experiences That Affect Self-efficacy Beliefs and Achievement Goal Orientations of Kindergarten Teachers in Kuwait\ Alazemi, NadeyahKoul, Ravinder
College	:	The Pennsylvania State University
Date	:	2019
student score	:	2019
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Page No	:	188
Abstract	:	The purpose of this study is to investigate which professional learning experiences affect teaching self-efficacy and achievement goal orientations of kindergarten teachers in Kuwait. In addition, the association between teachers’ perceptions about the effects of professional learning experiences on their sources of self-efficacy and their levels of self-efficacy and achievement goal orientations are explored. The study is based on Bandura’s theoretical framework for self-efficacy and the concept of achievement goal orientations. This quantitative study is based on data from a measurement instrument comprised of three surveys: two adopted from previous research which measure teachers’ self-efficacy and achievement goal orientations, and one developed and validated during this study which measures teachers’ perceptions about the effects of professional learning experiences on their sources of self-efficacy. The results, which are based on data collected from 629 kindergarten teachers in Kuwait, suggest that professional learning experiences aimed at developing mastery experience and fostering social persuasion are associated with positive motivational outcomes (i.e., high self-efficacy and adoption of the mastery achievement goal orientation). The results also show that Kuwaiti kindergarten teachers tend to adopt performance goal orientations more than mastery achievement goal orientations. Moreover, a direct relationship exists between years of experience and self-efficacy: less experienced teachers tend to have lower self-efficacy levels than more experienced teachers. These findings have several important implications. Suggestions are made for the design of effective professional learning experiences that can best promote positive motivational outcomes for teachers. Moreover, these findings contribute to the education field by providing valuable evidences from a non-Western cultural context.
Subject	:	Early childhood education
	:	Teacher education