“…Despite the important role principals play in carrying out educational policy, current research on the role of the principal when implementing teacher evaluation (Tuytens & Devos, 2010;Vekeman, Devos, Tuytens, 2014) and their perception of teacher evaluation is limited (Derrington & Campbell, 2015;Jiang, Sporte & Luppescu, 2015). Though an extensive body of research on self-efficacy is available in the existing research literature (e.g., Bandura, 1986Bandura, , 2001Goddard, 2001;McCormick, 2001;Pearlmutter, 1998), there is a lack of research studies that examine principal self-efficacy (PSE) during an instructional reform (Leithwood & Jantzi, 2008;Tschannen-Moran & Gareis, 2004). It is from this gap that the current analysis will attempt to provide a better understanding of principal self-efficacy during a system wide reform in evaluation.…”