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CHOICE Review

The material in this monograph would be extremely meaningful to everyone involved in the education of others. A thorough analysis of one's own status as a teacher could not be complete without consideration of the focus of these authors. It is important for teachers to have some sense of their own efficacy because it has everything to do with how they feel about what they are doing, how they are doing it, and the relationship of these to their interactions with students. Those whose work deals with the preparation and/or supervision of teachers will do well to familiarize themselves with knowledge of the results of such analyses. The conceptual framework which serves as a design for this study may be used for analyses of a systems or individual situation. An especially interesting aspect of this research deals with deleterious effects on teachers' sense of efficacy of psychosocial conditions in the schools. This volume, and the recent annotated bibliographies in Teacher Effectiveness (CH, May '84)and Teacher Attitudes (1986) by Marjorie Powell and Joseph Beard, may signal a renewed interest in this important area. Recent criticism and the resulting soul-searching in education make this a timely topic. This monograph lives up to the standard of quality set by earlier issues of this excellent series. For graduate students and upper-division undergraduates.-J.A. Hicks, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania