A STUDY OF TEACHER MOTIVATION ON TEACHER SELF-EFFICACY AMONG TEACHER EDUCATORS

The present study aims to examine the teacher motivation and teacher self-efficacy among teacher educators. The investigator has adopted correlation cum causal comparative method under descriptive method of research. The sample consists of 300 teacher educators from different colleges affiliated to Davangere University, Kuvempu University and Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevaraya University through stratified random sampling technique. The investigator developed a self-made tool to measure the teacher motivation and also used the standardized tool to measure the teacher self-efficacy among teacher educators. To interpret the raw scores, data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, t-test and correlation. The finding shows that significant and positive relationship was observed between teacher motivation and teacher self-efficacy among teacher educators. It is to be noted that, there is no significant difference in the mean score of teacher motivation between male and female teacher educators however female teacher educators are having more self-efficacy scores compare male teacher educators. The unaided teacher educators have higher self-efficacy and teacher motivation scores values compared to aided teacher educators. Further, the teaching experience does not have a significant impact on teacher self-efficacy and teacher motivation scores among the teacher educators.