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Motivation To Teach: The Differences Between Faculty In Schools Of Education And K-12 Teachers, Nancy L. Leech, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Carolyn A. Haug
Motivation To Teach: The Differences Between Faculty In Schools Of Education And K-12 Teachers, Nancy L. Leech, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Carolyn A. Haug
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate higher education faculty’s motivation to teach and to validate the Factors Influencing Teaching Choice (FIT-Choice) survey with this population.
Design/methodology/approach – Confirmatory factor analysis and t-tests on data from 101 higher education faculty and data from K-12 teachers show that the two samples fit the model similarly.
Findings – Results show that the similarities between the two groups are important to note as it suggests both the value of the FIT-Choice instrument as a research tool in higher education as well as the similarities in motivating factors between higher …