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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2018.38.2.123

What Factors Affect Pre-service Teachers in Choosing Teaching Science as Career?: Teaching Motivations of Pre-Service Science Teachers in Korea  

Lee, Bongwoo (Dankook University)
Kim, Heekyong (Kangwon National University)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.38, no.2, 2018 , pp. 123-133 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate pre-service science teachers' motivation factor and satisfaction of teaching choice in Korea. For this purpose, we surveyed 815 pre-service science teachers in 11 universities in Korea. The questionnaire used in this study was the FIT-Choice scale (Factors Influencing Teaching-Choice) developed by Richardson and Watt (2006). The most significant factor in choosing teaching science as a profession was 'intrinsic value,' followed by 'social utility value,' but lower than the average of other countries in the previous research results. The confidence in teaching professions was low because the percentage of respondents about 'ability' was low and 'task demand' was high. Satisfaction with teaching choice was 5.36, and it is lower than the average of responses in Australia and USA. As for the differences according to gender, male pre-service teachers responded that they chose teaching because they have the proper ability to teach, while female pre-service teachers perceived that the influence of others was greater. Also, female pre-service teachers felt the burden of job such as hard work and emotional demands more than men. Finally, the motivation which showed the highest correlation with the satisfaction of choosing to teach was the intrinsic value. Therefore, finding ways to increase the intrinsic/social utility motivation for pre-service science teachers and differentiated approach considering gender differences are needed.
Keywords
motivations of teaching; satisfaction of choosing a teaching profession; intrinsic motivation;
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