Bio

Professor John Hattie is a researcher in education. His research interests include performance indicators, models of measurement and evaluation of teaching and learning. John Hattie became known to a wider public with his two books Visible Learning and Visible Learning for teachers. Visible Learning is a synthesis of more than 800 meta-studies covering more than 80 million students.  According to John Hattie Visible Learning is the result of 15 years of research about what works best for learning in schools. TES once called him "possibly the world's most influential education academic".

John Hattie has been Director of the Melbourne Educational Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia, since March 2011. Before, he was Project Director of asTTle and Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Abstract

Self-beliefs of Teachers

This chapter identifies many ways to conceptualize teacher self-beliefs such as their conceptions of the purpose of education,  learning, motivation, assessment,  expectations, responsibilities, self-concept, self-efficacy, and the nature of knowledge. We develop a process model to bring structure to these beliefs, and show the relations to student learning and achievement.

Keywords: teacher self-concept, self-beliefs.

Authors:  Michael Witter (ACU) & John Hattie (UoM)