Motivations for choosing teaching as a career: An international comparison using the FIT-Choice scale |
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| Authors: | Helen MG Watt Paul W Richardson Uta Klusmann Mareike Kunter Beate Beyer Ulrich Trautwein Jürgen Baumert |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Education, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Wellington Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia;2. Christian Albrechts University at Kiel, Germany;3. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany;4. University of Tübingen, Germany;5. Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany |
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| Abstract: | 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, Germany, and Norway. Support for strong factorial invariance implied the scale functioned similarly, and could fruitfully be employed in different contexts. Sample comparisons revealed that motivations for teaching were more similar than they were different across these samples; whereas, perceptions about the teaching profession tended to reflect country differences. |
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| Keywords: | Teaching motivations Beginning teachers Sample comparisons FIT-Choice scale Expectancy-value theory |
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