Abstract:
Teacher instructional behaviors are important for learning management. The teacher is a knowledge transfer person and a good example for students. Encouraging internal motivation in relation to teacher instructional behaviors give students the benefit of learning. The purposes of this research were 1) to assess the construct validity of self-efficacy, intrinsic needs, interests, teaching goals, and teacher instructional behavior variables; 2) to study the multiple correlation of self-efficacy, intrinsic needs, interests, teaching goals, and teacher instructional behavior variables; 3) to derive equations for predicting teacher instructional behaviors with self-efficacy, intrinsic needs, interests, and teaching goals variables; and 4) to compare teacher instructional behaviors by classifying teaching experiences. Samples consisted of 157 teachers derived by proportional stratified random sampling and 1,570 questionnaires students derived by simple random sampling. Research instruments involved two questionnaires, one for students and one for teachers. Data were analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis, multiple correlation analysis, multiple regressions analysis, and one-way MANOVA.
The research findings were as follows.
1) Self-efficacy, intrinsic needs, interests, teaching goals, and teacher instructional behaviors were found to have construct validity and to be consistent with empirical data.
2) Teacher instructional behavior variables had multiple correlations with self-efficacy, intrinsic needs, interests, and teaching goals.
3) Self-efficacy, intrinsic needs, interests, and teaching goals led to multiple regressions of predict teacher instructional behaviors as follows:
Multiple regression in the form of raw scores:
= .744 + .154(SE)** + .151(IN)** + .103(INT)* + .157(TG)**
Multiple regression in the form of standard was:
= .154Z**SE + .151Z**IN + .103Z*INT + .157Z**TG
4) Teachers with different teaching experiences had the same teacher instructional behaviors.