Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to develop a behaviour management self efficacy scale and check its reliability and validity Scale items were formulated in the light of Bandura’s self efficacy theory and studies on classroom behaviour management efficacy First form of scale consisted of 42 items with 5 point Likert typed scale The first form of scale was administered 210 primary school teachers worked at 12 different schools in Adana and data derived from this group were used to do reliability and validity For validity a factor analysis was repeated three times and it resulted in a 15 item scale with three sub scales These sub scales are named as ‘communication’ ‘behaviour management’ and ‘collaboration’ Cronbach Alfa co efficient was computed 89 for communication sub scale 70 for behaviour management 80 for collaboration and 90 for total scale Additionally split half reliability was around 82 Results indicated that the scale can be used either by total or sub scales Keywords: behaviour management teacher efficacy primary school

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