Teaching, Research, and Management Self-Efficacy of Agricultural Universities’ Teachers

Teachers are the obligatory ingredients in enhancing the effective learning process at university through their keen potential for quality of teaching, research, and management. The faculty of agricultural universities in Pakistan is striving for productive agriculture education and research. Teachers possessing prevailing sense of self-efficacy are intrinsically motivated and additionally challenge themselves by multifarious tasks. The study was conducted to observe the self-efficacy levels of agricultural universities teachers at Faisalabad and Rawalpindi with respect to three particular domains named as teaching, research, and management. Stratified random sampling technique was used. From target population four strata, i.e., professors, associate professors, assistant professors, and lecturers were considered. As a result, 100 (59%) teachers from University of Agriculture Faisalabad and 67 (40.1%) teachers from PirMehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi participated in the study as respondents. Data were collected through a questionnaire as an instrument of research. Pilot study was done on a sample of 24 teachers. Data were analyzed by using t-test and ANOVA test. High level of efficacy in terms of teaching, research, and management was found; teachers were fully confident in their beliefs to accomplish intended tasks. Teachers having less administrative tasks reported better performance in related tasks.