Motivational Factors Influencing Teaching as a Career Choice: Development and Validation of the FIT-Choice Scale

Volume: 75, Issue: 3, Pages: 167 - 202
Published: Apr 1, 2007
Abstract
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 factors that teacher education candidates identified as most important in their decision to teach....
Paper Details
Title
Motivational Factors Influencing Teaching as a Career Choice: Development and Validation of the FIT-Choice Scale
Published Date
Apr 1, 2007
Volume
75
Issue
3
Pages
167 - 202
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