Preliminary Study of Approaches to Learning and Teaching Self-Efficacy of Student-Teachers in Malaysia (Kajian Pendidikan dan Keyakinan Pengajaran Guru Pelatih di Malaysia)

The purpose of the study was to investigate the approaches to learning and teaching self-efficacy of student-teachers in Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI). Data were collected with 347 UPSI student-teachers using two questionnaires, the Study Process Questionnaire (SPQ) and Teacher s Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES), that were translated into Bahasa Melayu (Malay Language). The study showed that the two translated instruments were reliable for use with student-teachers. An examination of the student-teachers approaches to learning (using the SPQ) and their beliefs concerning their teaching self-efficacy (using the TSES) revealed that deep and achieving approaches to learning were associated with strong teaching self-efficacy beliefs and that those student-teachers who sought to achieve did so through the use of deep approaches to learning. Some implications for teacher training institutions were discussed