Measuring teacher candidate self-efficacy using varied learning environments to implement explicit instruction

The call for research in the special educator preparation community is needed to help provide successful strategies to support effective teaching and student learning (Brownell et al., 2019). The purpose of this study was to better understand the impact of a learning environment for pre-service educator self-efficacy and their implementation of explicit instruction. Through qualitative and quantitative investigation, this study helped better understand alternative technology learning environments and how they impacted pre-service educator performance on expected assignments in their preparation program.