Teachers’ Self-Efficacy

Method: This study is practical in terms of purpose, and descriptive correlational in terms of method. The statistical population includes all teachers from second normal secondary schools in the first and second districts of Sanandaj city during the academic year of 2021-2, totalling 686 individuals. A sample size of 343 was selected using a simple random sampling method. Data was collected through three questionnaires: The 10-Item Ethical Leadership Scale by Brown and Trevino (2005), The 12-Item Collective Efficacy Questionnaire by Goddard (2001), and The 9-Item Questionnaire by Schaufeli et al. (2002) utilizing a five-point Likert scale. The face validity of the questionnaires was confirmed through expert opinions, while their construct validity was established by Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). To ensure questionnaire reliability, the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was utilized. The resulting reliability coefficients for the ethical leadership, self-efficacy, and job involvement questionnaires were 0.91, 0.72, and 0.93, respectively. After verifying that the parametric assumptions were met, the data was analysed using Pearson’s correlation test and structural equation modelling via SPSS software. The results revealed a favourable fit for the research’s structural model, indicating a direct relationship between the ethical leadership style of school managers and teachers’ collective efficacy and job involvement. Furthermore, the ethical leadership status of school managers emerged as a significant predictor for teachers’ levels of collective efficacy and job involvement. These findings suggest that demonstrating ethical leadership behaviours can enhance teachers’ self-efficacy, thereby fostering greater passion and job involvement among them

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of the good character of principals on the self-efficacy of teachers with the role of coaching leadership as a mediator. This study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlational in terms of data collection method of structural equations. The statistical population of the research consisted of 234 teachers of the first secondary schools of Durood city, and the sample size was 145 by referring to the Karjeci and Morgan (1970) table and was selected by the stratified relative sampling method. Data collection tools include teachers' self-efficacy questionnaire by Moran and Hoy (2001), good character of principals by Barker and Koi (2003) and leadership style by Bekan and Spear (2003). Convergent validity indices, Cronbach's alpha coefficient and composite reliability were used to measure the validity and reliability of the instruments. The results of all the indices confirmed that the questionnaires have a favorable condition. The data were processed using SPSS26 and Smart PLS3 software. showed that the effect of good character on teachers' self-efficacy is significant, according to the standard coefficients of the path, the direct effect of good character on teachers' self-efficacy is 0.335, and its overall effect is equal to is 0.681. Coaching leadership directly explains teachers' self-efficacy to the extent of 0.378 (37.8%). The good character of principals today as a strategy can strengthen the sense of self-efficacy and improve teachers' performance through coaching leadership, which ultimately improves the academic and moral level of students.