The purpose of this study was to investigate the levels of teacher efficacy reported by student teachers upon completion of the student teaching experience and to better understand the perceptions held by the student teachers regarding the roles the university supervisor played. The roles played by the supervisor focused on the levels of support and challenge. These two concepts (levels of support and challenge) refer to the types of actions of the university supervisor which either affirms the actions of the preservice teacher or identifies an area in which the preservice teacher needs to improve. The perceptions held by the student teachers were examined along with the reported beliefs about teacher efficacy to determine if any correlations existed. The information from the students teachers was obtained at the completion of the student teaching experience using online surveys. The surveys were completed by 121 student teachers. This resulted in a 27% response rate. The relationship between the preservice teachers' beliefs of efficacy and their perception of their university supervisors was studied. Data analysis established that there was no statistical significance or relationship with beliefs of efficacy and either levels of support or challenge. Since there was no statistically significant relationship between support and efficacy or challenge and efficacy, an ideal combination of levels of support and challenge to result in a maximum level of efficacy beliefs cannot be established from the regression model. / Dissertation Chair: Dr. George Bieger Dissertation Committee Members: Dr. Monte Tidwell and Dr. James Hooks

The theoretic part of my dissertation is devoted to the management by crisis and the integrated salvage system, their organization, single components and system of their management. Farther I occupy here with the chapter of supervision, namely with its function, course, role and position of supervisor and supervider. In the first part of my dissertation I mention a mediation and debriefing too as the possible options of supervision. The research objective in the practical part of my work is characterize the possibilities of a participation of supervisor or supervision into the system of the management by crisis. This part of my dissertation was worked up both by the quantitative and qualitative method. I have chosen data collection for the anonymous interrogatory. The workers of IZS in the South Bohemian Region formed the target group. 82 informants formed the total research set. The data processing was by the qualitative method by means of SWOT analysis. I surveyed two hypotheses. Hypothesis No.1 {--} The IZS workers have poor awareness of the supervision advantages and risk of its absence. In Hypothesis No.2 {--} I presumed that according to the IZS workers the supervision in the workplace is not important.