Measuring Teaching Motivations, Self-Efficacies and Aspirations: An overview of the development and validation of three new psychometric instruments

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• Associate Professor Helen Watt & Dr Paul Richardson, Faculty of Education Monash University, Australia
• Monday 17 August 2009, 14:00-15:30
• Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ.

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In this presentation we overview in detail the theorectical underpinnings for each of our three new multidimensional instruments, their development, and empirical construct validation across large samples of Australian beginning teachers. During our longitudinal “Factors Influencing Teaching Choice” program of research, we have developed psychometric instruments to validly assess each of (i) participants’ teaching motivations, (ii) self-efficacies, and (iii) their professional engagement and career development aspirations. These instruments are, respectively, the FIT -Choice Scale (Factors Influencing Teaching Choice; Watt & Richardson, 2007), the SET Scale (Self-Efficacy for Teaching; Watt & Richardson, under review), and the PECDA Scale (Professional Engagement and Career Development Aspirations, Watt & Richardson, 2008). These measures provide theorectical and analytical frameworks to help guide future investigations in this area, which, problematically, has not been characterised by consistent or clear operationalisations of the central constructs. Understanding beginning teachers’ motivations, self-efficacies and aspirations has implications for teacher education planning and curriculum design, teacher recruitment authorities, school leaders and employers, and government and intergovernmental planning and policy decisions – especially when many countries around the globe are struggling to attract and retain quality teachers in a climate of escalating teacher shortages.

This talk is part of the ELPEC Group Seminars series.

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