Abstract
This research aims to analyze the possible explanatory relationships among personal variables, teaching activities variables, contextual variables and the São Paulo state public high school teachers' self-efficacy beliefs. This thought is defined as teachers' perceptions about their own capabilities to achieve desired results of engagement and student learning, even among those cases that may be difficult or unmotivated, and it has been associated to teachers' satisfaction and to the school success, besides other contributions. By using questionnaires, 201 educators from 11 ABC Paulista schools participated, from which 180 were high school teachers and 21 were school managers. The analyzis of multivariate linear regression verified that the variables graduation, school collective efficacy belief and time of work at the same school were significant in order to explain the teachers' self-efficacy. Under the social cognitive theory the necessity of teacher graduation that allies ability and self-efficacy development, as well as conditions to minimize teachers' rotation and make the school collective efficacy belief stronger are discussed.
Keywords:
graduation; collective efficacy; work conditions; teachers' satisfaction
