Teacher Informal Collaboration for Professional Improvement: Beliefs, Contexts, and Experience

Table 6

Degree of agreement on collective teacher efficacy (1 = not at all; 7 = fully agree.

	Component items	Factor loadings
Factor 1: positive view; Mean: 5.57; SD: 1.09; Cronbach Alpha 0.7778	Teachers in this school are able to get through to difficult students	0,831
	Teachers in this school believe every student can learn	0,834
	Teachers in this school use a variety of teaching methods	0,576
Factor 2: negative view; mean: 2.76; SD: 1.69; Cronbach Alpha 0.8788	Teachers in this school think there are students no one can reach	0,682
	Teachers here don’t have the skills needed to produce meaningful student learning	0,783
	Teachers in this school do not have the skills to deal with student disciplinary problems	0,866
	If a student doesn’t want to learn, teachers here give up	0,893
Model fit statistics: RMSEA: 0,069; CFI: 0,968; SRMR: 0,034

based on Goddard et al. [21] questionnaire.