Impact of English Teachers' Self Efficacy Beliefs on Students' Performance

The objective of this study was to find out the impact of English teachers' self efficacy beliefs on students' performance at secondary level in North-West of Pakistan. The study was descriptive-co relational type and the data were collected through Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) long form developed by Tschannen-Moran and Woolfolk Hoy (1) and students' achievement test developed by the researcher. Population of the study comprised of twenty state secondary schools (both genders) from two districts, Kohat and Karak. Two English teachers and ten students from each government secondary school were taken as the sample of the study. Random sampling technique was used. The data revealed that female English teachers had more sense of efficacy as compared to male teachers on the distribution of teachers' sense of efficacy scale (TSES), Moreover female students performed better on students' academic achievement test as compared to male students.