Teacher’s Sense of Efficacy and Students’ Motivation: The Mediating Effect of Parental Involvement

Aims: To determine the mediating effect of parental involvement in the relationship of teacher’s sense of efficacy and students’ motivation.

Study Design: Quantitative non-experimental design.

Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted among secondary school teachers in all public schools in the Division of Davao del Sur, Region 11, Mindanao, Philippines during the school year 2021-2022.

Methodology: The respondents were 308 secondary school teachers from the Division of Davao del sur, selected using stratified random sampling. The data were collected using google forms. Mean, standard deviation, Regression Analysis, and Medgraph using Sobel z-test were used to analyze the collected data.

Results: The overall results showed that the study had very high mean of teacher’s sense of efficacy, high mean of students’ motivation and very high mean of parental involvement. From the significant relationship of each variable, parental involvement partially mediates the relationship between the teacher's sense of efficacy and the students’ motivation. There is not only a significant relationship between parental involvement and teacher's sense of efficacy but there is also a direct relationship between the teacher's sense of efficacy and students’ motivation.

Conclusion: The results proved that the teacher’s sense of efficacy directly affects the students’ motivation with the influence of parental involvement.