These findings confirmed the results reported by Gencer and Cakiroglu (2007) and Chan (2004), but conflicted with the
findings of Kalaian and Freeman (1994) (cited in Gencer and Cakiroglu, 2007) and Chester and Beaudin
(1996) who found that beliefs are mediated by the teachers’ age and prior experience; that is, age and prior
experience were associated with changes in newly hired teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs.