...Jennifer Donohoo Purpose Collective efficacy ranks among the most powerful influences on student achievement, yet practice has treated it as unidimensional, assuming more is unequivocally better. This obscures a critical question: what happens when a team's belief in its capability diverges from...

... Licensed re-use rights only Annmarie Noonan can be contacted at: annmarie.noonan@gmail.com Bandura's (1986 , 1997) social cognitive theory provides the foundation for understanding collective efficacy in education. Bandura posits that efficacy beliefs are central to human agency...

... can then begin the journey of cultivating CTE within their schools. Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon previous research, contextual predictors of collective efficacy were identified and a questionnaire was created. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate the proposed factor...

... leadership actions around safeguarding LGBT students through the lens of leadership self-efficacy and building collective efficacy is an important one, and will add to the originality of this paper. 25 02 2017 11 08 2017 02 10 2017 17 10 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018...

.../methodology/approach Educational Resources Information Center and EBSCO databases were searched for peer-reviewed articles written in English and published over the last ten years (between 2007 and 2017). The search terms included “collective efficacy” and “teacher or teachers” and “professional development...