This is a preprint of a study by Max Vermeij on collective student efficacy under my supervision. As a first step to further research on this concept, developing and validating a useful and reliable scale was crucial. Do note: the study is currently under peer review, but you can download a preprint here with information about the scale.
Collective student efficacy defines a new concept of students’ shared confidence about their class-conjoint capabilities to successfully perform a specific academic activity or task. While collective efficacy beliefs have been extensively researched for teachers and teams, the exploration of collective student efficacy is a new perspective. In this study, a new measure was designed for collective student efficacy. Factor analyses showed a clear structure of three factors with a consensus within classes. These factors show the influence of what students can do, how they do it and how they are supported to do so.
[…] It is also telling what remains underexplored. Multilingual contexts, third-language acquisition, cross-linguistic transfer, and institutional factors are underrepresented in fifty years of research. That is not a trivial oversight. It reflects a persistent monolingual and individualistic lens, even though many classrooms today are multilingual and socially complex. We know quite a lot about how an individual learner plans and monitors their learning. We know far less about how learners co-construct meaning within dynamic, culturally situated environments. This made me think about my own work on collective student efficacy. […]