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Direct linkThomson, Margareta Maria; Turner, Jeannine E.; Nietfeld, John L. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
This study utilized cluster analysis to identify typologies of prospective teachers enrolled in a teacher education program in the U.S. based upon their self-report motivations for teaching. A three-cluster solution generated three distinctive typologies of prospective teachers (N's of 93, 70 and 52), and further differences among typologies were…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Classification, Student Motivation, Career Choice
Watt, 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
Mtika, Peter; Gates, Peter – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
This interview-based qualitative study is concerned with the recruitment of secondary teachers in Malawi. This study shows a range of perspectives for pursuing a teacher training course: failure to follow a desired career, springboard to other careers, to upgrade, and teaching out of vocation. It shows that trainee teachers held a range of images…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Trainees, Preservice Teacher Education
Rots, Isabel; Aelterman, Antonia; Devos, Geert; Vlerick, Peter – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
This two-wave survey study aimed at testing a hypothetical model of teacher education graduates' decisions about whether or not to take a teaching position upon graduation. The model focuses on the relationship between teacher education and graduates' choice on job entrance. Using path analysis and logistic regression, this model was tested in a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Teaching (Occupation), Graduates
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
