Engineering Teaching Efficacy
Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education has become a priority in many school districts, which makes it critical that teachers feel well-prepared and confident teaching these subjects. This is especially true in secondary schools when students are making decisions about their educational and vocational futures with long-term ramifications.
The Engineering Teaching Efficacy Scale (ETES) was designed to measure middle school teachers’ confidence in teaching STEM subjects. The 25-question ETES was adapted from the Science Teaching Efficacy and Beliefs Instrument to apply to engineering rather than science teaching. Preliminary research has suggested the ETES has strong psychometric properties and reliability.
The current investigation builds upon this early study by recruiting a larger, nationwide sample of STEM teachers to pilot an initial version of the ETES. These data will be used to investigate the factor structure, psychometric properties, and reliability of the ETES in this expanded dataset.