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Career Adaptability and Academic Motivation as Predictors of Student Teachers' Attitudes towards the Profession: A Mixed Methods Study
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Yurtseven, Nihal; Dulay, Sabiha – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2022
The attitudes towards the teaching profession reflect teachers' perception of the profession and strongly shape their professional behavior. As understanding the teaching profession and developing positive attitudes requires a long process, it is important to determine factors affecting attitudes towards teaching profession before the students…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Student Attitudes, Vocational Adjustment, Teaching (Occupation)
Learning Engagements and the Role of Religion
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Khalid, Fatima; Mirza, Sultan Sikandar; Bin-Feng, Chai; Saeed, Nighat – SAGE Open, 2020
The objective of this study is to determine the relationship between learning engagement, academic motivation, and academic performance in undergraduate students and the importance of religion in determining the academic motivation and academic performance. A sample of 840 university students from different regions (provinces) of Pakistan is…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Role of Religion, Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students
The Reasons and Motivation for Pre-Service Teachers Choosing to Specialise in Primary Physical Education Teacher Education
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Spittle, Sharna; Spittle, Michael – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
This study explored the reasons for pre-service teachers choosing to specialise in primary physical education and how these choices related to their motivation. Pre-service teachers who then elected to specialise in primary physical education (n = 248) completed the Attractors and Facilitators for Physical Education (AFPE) questionnaire and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education
An Exploration of the Motivational Profile of Secondary Urban Agriculture Students
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Anderson, James C., II – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2013
This descriptive-correlational study examined the personal factors that may affect the self-determination of 110 freshmen who have elected to enroll in an urban agriculture program. The personal factors, termed the motivational profile, consisted of influences in the decision to enroll in the program, the student's type of motivation to attend the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Agricultural Education, Urban Youth, High School Freshmen
Academic Motivations of Pre-Service English Language Teachers
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Ariogul, Sibel – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2009
This study examines the academic motivation, in a Turkish context, of Turkish pre-service English teachers to contribute field research. Students (n=287) completed the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) and a demographic questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, a one-way ANOVA, independent sample t-test, and Pearson product…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, English Teachers, English (Second Language), Preservice Teachers
Basic Factors that Affect General Academic Motivation Levels of Candidate Preschool Teachers
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Celikoz, Nadir – Education, 2010
The purpose of this study is to investigate some personal and familial factors that affect overall academic motivation levels of candidate preschool teachers. The study group of this research consists of 285 students attending the child development and preschool education department at Selcuk University Faculty of Vocational Education in the…
Descriptors: Siblings, Preschool Education, Incentives, Job Search Methods