“…Teacher's self-efficacy (Bandura, 1977(Bandura, , 1997) is a relevant, personal judgement of self-belief by teachers in their ability to perform tasks Dicke et al, 2014;Hovey et al, 2020;Porsch, 2015;Skaalvik & Skaalvik, 2007;Tschannen-Moran & Woolfolk Hoy, 2007) and is usually measured using self-assessment scales (Pan et al, 2013;Schwarzer & Hallum, 2008). Studies show that people with low levels of professional expertise frequently overestimate their abilities and that people with high levels of professional expertise underestimate their abilities (Baumgartner, 2017;Kruger & Dunning, 1999). The assumption is that this can lead to inverse distortions in the response behaviour of respondents, resulting in virtually no differences in selfefficacy despite differing levels of qualification, e.g., qualified and out-of-field teaching (Flores et al, 2004;Fox & Peters, 2013;Voltmann-Hummes, 2008).…”