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Herwijnen, Anneloes van (2015)

'Teacher efficacy' en leesontwikkeling van leerlingen met leesproblemen

Master thesis | Education and Child Studies (MSc)

In the Netherlands, 8-10% of the population of 16 years and older is low literated. Because literacy is quite important to participate in current and future society, this research investigates if teacher efficacy has a positive effect on the growth rate of reading. The participants are 23 teachers and 89 students of the 5th to the 8th grade. Teacher efficacy has been measured with a questionnaire translated into Dutch. Reading growth has been measured by a weekly maze task and a pre and post measurement of two reading tests. The results show there is no significant correlation between teacher efficacy and the results on the maze-tasks. The two factorial repeated measures ANOVA’s that have been conducted show both main effects for Measurement time (pre- and post) and ‘Teacher efficacy’. Remarkably, reading test scores of students of teachers with low teacher efficacy are higher than reading test scores of students of teachers with high teacher efficacy. In this research, no support...Show moreIn the Netherlands, 8-10% of the population of 16 years and older is low literated. Because literacy is quite important to participate in current and future society, this research investigates if teacher efficacy has a positive effect on the growth rate of reading. The participants are 23 teachers and 89 students of the 5th to the 8th grade. Teacher efficacy has been measured with a questionnaire translated into Dutch. Reading growth has been measured by a weekly maze task and a pre and post measurement of two reading tests. The results show there is no significant correlation between teacher efficacy and the results on the maze-tasks. The two factorial repeated measures ANOVA’s that have been conducted show both main effects for Measurement time (pre- and post) and ‘Teacher efficacy’. Remarkably, reading test scores of students of teachers with low teacher efficacy are higher than reading test scores of students of teachers with high teacher efficacy. In this research, no support has been found for the hypothesis that teacher efficacy has a positive effect on the growth rate of reading. Because the sample has been small, additional research should be done in order to draw strong conclusions.Show less

teacher efficacy

maze task

reading

growth rate

the Netherlands

Author

Herwijnen, Anneloes van

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Specialisation

Coach for Learning and Development

Supervisors

Chung, Siuman

ECTS Credits

20

Language

nl