School Board Members' Self-Efficacy Beliefs About Their Governance Tasks: A Case Study Of Two Districts In Lesotho

Abstract

Although decentralization has led to greater autonomy for school boards [SB]; many of them seem to be ineffective. This paper examined the extent to which SB members perceived their tasks as challenges or as threats. Bandura's selfefficacy theory framed this qualitative study in which 108 participants were purposively sampled. A Skills Confidence Inventory (SCI) was used to collect data. The results from this study show that SB members have moderate to high self-efficacy beliefs in 5 of the 7 roles that were investigated. Further studies should be conducted to determine the responsive levels existing within the school governance environments.