The Relationship Between Preservice Teachers’ Motivational Beliefs and Commitment to the Teaching Profession
Year: 2018
Type: dissertation
Abstract: ABSTRACT \nThe purpose of this research is to strengthen the knowledge base on preservice teachers’ expectancy-values, self-efficacy, and commitment beliefs to the teaching profession. The second purpose is to understand how the constructs of expectancy-value and self-efficacy may predict preservice teachers’ commitment to the teaching profession. The quantitative data will be collected to examine whether self-efficacy and expectancy-value differ among preservice teachers at different stages of the teaching profession, commitment to the teaching profession differ at different stages of the teaching profession and self-efficacy and expectancy-value can predict the commitment to the teaching profession. The context of this study is Jamaican and all the participants were all Jamaican preservice teachers attending a teacher training institution in urban St. Andrew, Jamaica.
Author: Alecia Young
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3029229717