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Exploring the relationship between self-efficacy beliefs when teaching science and engineering
 
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I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, RUSSIA
 
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Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, RUSSIA
 
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Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University), Moscow, RUSSIA
 
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, RUSSIA
 
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Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Kazan, RUSSIA
 
 
Publication date: 2024-08-08
 
 
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2024;20(8):em2493
 
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The belief that pre-service science teachers can effectively instruct science has been the subject of substantial research. However, a lack of research exists to examine the relationship between pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs and their capacity to teach science and engineering. To fill this void in the literature, it is necessary to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy beliefs in engineering and science education. To address this knowledge deficit, this research investigated the relationship between pre-service science teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs in science instruction and their engineering teaching self-efficacy beliefs. The data were obtained from 224 pre-service science teachers using a quantitative approach. The study results indicated that pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs in science teaching were higher than in engineering teaching. The correlation analysis revealed a strong and significant correlation between self-efficacy beliefs in science and engineering teaching. The regression analysis also showed a significant relationship between self-efficacy beliefs in science and engineering. In addition, the results also revealed that science-teaching self-efficacy beliefs explained 52% of the variation in participants’ engineering-teaching self-efficacy beliefs. Future research recommendations are derived from the results.
 
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