الكفاءة الذاتية في تدريس العلوم لدى معلمي المرحلة الأساسية الدنيا قبل الخدمة

Abstract EN

The purpose of this study was to examine science teaching selfefficacy of preservice elementary teachers, as well as to investigate whether these beliefs are related to gender and secondary school major.

The participants were 194 preservice elementary teachers from Islamic university in Gaza.

Science teaching self-efficacy instrument STEBI-B were used to collect data.

Findings revealed that most preservice teachers had moderate to high science teaching self- efficacy.

Furthermore, there were significant differences between PSTE and STOE scores for males and females in favor of females.

Furthermore, teachers of scientific section at secondary school demonstrated significantly higher PSTE scores than those of literary sections, but there were no significant differences between STOE scores for the same groups.

This study recommended that elementary science teachers of scientific school section are more appropriate for teaching science.

Moreover, male teachers should be reinforced during their preparation to improve their efficacy.