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Record W4409507526 · doi:10.3390/educsci15040497

Integrating Practice and Theory in Teacher Education: Enhancing Pre-Service Self-Efficacy for Inclusive Education

2025· article· en· W4409507526 on OpenAlex
Michael Fairbrother, Jacqueline Specht, Jessica Delorey, Jessica Whitley, Linda Ismailos, Mélissa Villella

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueEducation Sciences · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDisability Education and Employment
Canadian institutionsBrock UniversityUniversité du Québec en Abitibi-TémiscamingueWestern UniversityUniversity of OttawaSt. Francis Xavier University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsSelf-efficacyMathematics educationTeacher educationPedagogyPsychologySociologySocial psychology

Abstract

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Inclusive education demands that children worldwide have access to education alongside their peers in their neighborhood schools and within regular classrooms. Understanding experiences that contribute to pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy is important as it influences their readiness to enact inclusive strategies effectively. This study involved 69 pre-service teachers from Canadian faculties of education in mixed-methods research using Group Concept Mapping. The analysis identified five clusters of experiences; a repeated measures ANOVA revealed that ‘Applying Knowledge’ and ‘Collaborating with Colleagues’ comprised the most important experiences for contributing to pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy for inclusive practices, while ‘Community Support’ and ‘Experiences with Diverse Student Needs’ were significantly more important than ‘Professional Development’. By aligning these clusters with Bandura’s sources of self-efficacy, this study highlights the importance of mastery experiences and supportive interactions. These findings suggest that teacher education programs that focus on and enhance practical experiences and interpersonal supports will connect to and better prepare pre-service teachers for inclusive education.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.444
Threshold uncertainty score0.985

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.441
Teacher spread0.419 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it