UNIVERSITY LECTURERS' SELF-EFFICACY AS TEACHER AND RESEARCHER: RELATION TO APPROACHES TO TEACHING AND INFLUENCE ON CONCEPTIONS OF THE TEACHING-RESEARCH NEXUS

The aim of this paper was to explore whether self-efficacy as teacher and researcher perceived by university lecturers was related to teaching styles and approaches. Two instruments were administered to 259 teachers at the University of Girona (Spain), who were active researchers and had a teaching workload of 9 ECTS or above. The results showed that self-efficacy as a researcher was the variable which yielded most differences. The higher the self-efficacy of the researcher, the stronger the belief that teaching was guided by research. Certain beliefs about the teaching-research nexus were very different according to the degree of self-efficacy as a researcher, while there were fewer differences in terms of gender and field of study.