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Download full textSuryani, Anne; Watt, Helen M. G.; Richardson, Paul W. – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2013
The paper examines future teachers' motivations for choosing a teaching career and their perceptions about the profession in the Indonesian context. Data were obtained from 802 fourth-year undergraduate teacher education students at two public and two private universities in Jakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The mean age of participants was 21.61…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Preservice Teachers, Career Choice, Foreign Countries
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Direct linkWatt, Helen M. G.; Richardson, Paul W.; Klusmann, Uta; Kunter, Mareike; Beyer, Beate; Trautwein, Ulrich; Baumert, Jurgen – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
Motivations for preservice teachers' choice of teaching as a career were investigated using the Factors Influencing Teaching Choice scale (FIT-Choice scale; Watt & Richardson, 2007). This scale was initially developed and validated in the Australian context; our study applied it across international samples from Australia, the United States,…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Career Choice, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
Kilinc, Ahmet; Watt, Helen M. G.; Richardson, Paul W. – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
Why choose to become a teacher in Turkey? The authors examined motivations and perceptions among preservice teachers (N = 1577) encompassing early childhood, primary and secondary education. The Factors Influencing Teaching Choice (FIT-Choice) instrument was translated into Turkish and its construct validity and reliability assessed. Altruistic…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Economic Development, Preservice Teachers, Teaching (Occupation)
Watt, Helen M. G.; Richardson, Paul W. – Learning and Instruction, 2008
The professional plans, satisfaction levels, demographic characteristics, perceptions and motivations of different teacher types distinguished by cluster analysis were investigated among graduate-entry primary and secondary teacher education candidates (N=510) from three Australian universities in an ongoing longitudinal study. Participants…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching (Occupation), Multivariate Analysis, Beginning Teachers
Watt, Helen M. G.; Richardson, Paul W. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2007
The authors apply current influential models from the motivational literature to develop the comprehensive factors influencing teaching choice (FIT-Choice) scale, to measure factors influencing the choice to teach for beginning preservice teacher education candidates. They validate the scale using 2 large cohorts (N = 488; 652) and describe the…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching (Occupation), Curriculum Design
Richardson, Paul W.; Watt, Helen M. G. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2005
The present study explored reasons behind graduates' decisions to pursue teaching as a career, in a 1-year pre-service teacher education program at an Australian university, located in Melbourne (N=74). A survey collected data about respondents' reasons for choosing teaching as a career, with open-ended questions eliciting rich qualitative data to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Career Change, Career Choice
