The Effect of Teacher’s Efficay on Teacher’s Discipline Style

Appropriate discipline style should be used by the teachers to discipline the students.Teacher are unsured and confused when handling student discipline and show the absence of a strong teacher efficacy.Thus, the objective of this study was to examine the influence of the teacher efficacy towards the Teacher Discipline Style, i.e: Supporter, Abdicator, Enforcer, Negotiator and Compromiser (Tomal,1999). Appropriate discipline style is determined by the highest rate of the teachers’ efficacy. The survey method used a cross sectional design that was carried out among 320 teachers who are the Disciplinary Committee members in national primary schools in Kedah and Perlis. Two instruments are used, Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) and The Teacher Discipline Five Style Inventory. Descriptive data are analyzed using SPSS version 19. Inferential statistics are analyzed by using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling 3(PLS-SEM 3). The findings show that the teacher efficacy has a great influence on Negotiator discipline style but has no influence on the Abdicator discipline style. The findings of this study can contribute to the Ministry Of Education (MOE) as a guide to the selection of a discipline teacher in school and also identify teachers that use the disciplinary style that has lower influence of teacher efficacy to take preventive action.