Self-Efficacy of Pre-Service Physical Education Teachers Toward Inclusion in Saudi Arabia

Majed M. Alhumaid, Selina Khoo and Tânia Bastos
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Majed M. Alhumaid: Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
Selina Khoo: Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
Tânia Bastos: Centre of Research, Education, Innovation, and Intervention in Sport, Faculty of Sport, University of Porto, 4200-450 Porto, Portugal

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 9, 1-13

Abstract: This study aims to determine the differences in levels of self-efficacy toward inclusion in general physical education (PE) classes among Saudi pre-service PE teachers. It also aims to evaluate the effect of independent variables with the covariate of attitude scores on participants’ self-efficacy toward including students with intellectual disabilities (ID), physical disabilities (PD), and visual impairments (VI). In total, 260 pre-service PE teachers enrolled in a university in Saudi Arabia completed the Arabic version of the self-efficacy scale for a physical education teacher education major toward children with disabilities. Repeated-measures multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) revealed that self-efficacy was highest towards including students with intellectual disability in general PE class and lowest towards students with physical disabilities. Having previous experience of observing a PE teacher teaching a student with a disability significantly influenced participants’ self-efficacy. Participants’ attitudes toward inclusion were only significant with participants’ self-efficacy toward students with physical disabilities. The findings suggest that observing a role model significantly predicts self-efficacy toward the inclusion of students with a disability.

Keywords: pre-service teacher; inclusive education; inclusive physical education; students with disabilities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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