Autoeficácia e o ciclo de vida docente na área contábil

Abstract

The objective of this study was to identify the degree of self-efficacy of teachers working in the accounting area and to investigate whether the teacher's life cycle influences self-efficacy. For that, a quantitative research was carried out, with the application of an adapted and descriptive questionnaire. The sample consisted of 542 professors of public higher education institutions, federal and state, in Brazil. The results indicate that the degree of self-efficacy of the participating teachers is high, and this shows that they believeto have the capacity to perform to higher education, even in the face of the requirement of an increasingly qualified professional teaching profile and considering that in the stricto sensu postgraduate courses there is a lag in terms of disciplines geared towards teaching pedagogical training. For the related tests it was possible to observe that there is a significant difference in the variables age and time of teaching, to the degree of self-efficacy of the same. It was identified that the levels of self-efficacy are higher among the teachers with more time of experience and older, when compared to the teachers with less experience and age. These results contribute to add to other researches on the degree of satisfaction of the professors of the accounting area, since it is a research modality that has still been little explored.