Motivations to teach : psychometric perspectives across the first semester of teacher education

By C. Sinclair, M. Dowson, D. McInerney. 2006

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Self-efficacy, job satisfaction, motivation and commitment: exploring the relationships between indicators of teachers’ professional identity (2011, unknown): “Sinclair et al. (2006) have speculated that teachers ’ motivation underpins teachers ’ occupational commitment, but did not investigate this proposition further.”
What makes teachers tick? Sustaining events in new teachers’ lives (2010, background): “In addition, an Australian study (Sinclair et al , 2006 ) found that working with children, intellectual challenge and helping others were major motivating factors for entering teaching.”
Teacher motivation: Definition, research development and implications for teachers (2016, result): “These initiative findings have been repeatedly confirmed by subsequent studies conducted in different social educational contexts (e.g. Alexander, Chant, & Cox, 1994; Kyriacou & Coulthard, 2000; Richardson & Watt, 2006; Sinclair, 2008; Sinclair et al., 2006).”
Initial and changing student teacher motivation and commitment to teaching (2008, methodology): “Extending earlier research (Sinclair et al., 2006), this study again employed Confirmatory Factor Analyses using LISREL version 8.72 to generate the dimensions (factors) of motivations to teach across two time waves (the beginning of the student teachers’ first semester of their courses and at the…”
Is the motivation to become a teacher related to pre‐service teachers’ intentions to remain in the profession? (2010, background): “The retirement of middle‐aged teachers and the resignation of qualified practicing teachers – for example owing to personal reasons or the availability of other, more attractive, careers – have been mentioned (Sinclair, Dowson, and McInerney 2006 ).”
Profiling teachers’ sense of professional identity (2011, background): “2005), job satisfaction (Davis and Wilson 2000) and occupational commitment (Sinclair et al. 2006).”