Role of Teacher Self-Efficacy and Teacher Commitment in getting desired Students’ Learning Outcomes

Abstract

According to NCERT report on Learning Outcomes at Elementary Stage (2017), 
learning outcomes refer to the assessment standards indicating the expected levels of learning 
that children should achieve for that class. There are many internal and external factors that 
affect students learning outcome at different stages. Among all the factors, teachers are one of 
the most important factors that affect students learning outcomes and play crucial role in their 
overall personality development. Therefore, it is essential to ensure the quality of teachers for 
getting quality education and desired learning outcomes. Teacher self-efficacy is one of the 
important factors affecting Learning outcome is considered as the belief of teacher in his/or her 
own teaching ability to do the teaching task successfully and affect the student‘s achievement. It 
also determines the performance of the teachers as well as their success and failure in teaching 
task. Since, commitment of teachers is considered as the important attribute for ensuring the 
quality of teachers as well as the whole education system as it ensures the retention of the 
teachers in the profession as well as in the organization, hence, it should have positive 
correlation with the teacher self-efficacy. But very few studies have been conducted in this 
regard. Therefore, this study was conducted to examine the impact of various components of 
organizational commitment on teacher self-efficacy. For this, a self-constructed Teacher Self
Efficacy Scale and a standardised Organizational Commitment Scale were administered on 400 
secondary school teachers of Aligarh District of U.P. Analysis of the data was done by 
calculating coefficient of correlation and step-wise multiple regression analysis and it has very 
relevant findings for teachers and policy makers.