Competencies and career choice motives: characteristics of high school students interested in teacher education programmes

C. Bohndick, S. Kohlmeyer, H.M. Buhl, Journal of Education for Teaching 43 (2017) 566–580.

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Bohndick, Carla; Kohlmeyer, Susanne; Buhl, Heike M.LibreCat
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In contrast to other career choices, the teaching profession seems familiar to those interested in teaching because they have had the chance to observe teachers for years. This phenomenon is known as the apprenticeship of observation and manifests in naïve ideas and expectations of teaching among teacher students. Therefore, characteristics of students interested in becoming teachers are important for early teacher education and counselling. These characteristics include competencies and motives, but nothing is known about their relationship to each other. Following international teaching standards and the expectancy-value framework, this paper analyses associations between both. Three competencies (i.e. planning, communication and cooperation) and seven career choice motives were examined using a paper–pencil survey of 907 high school students. Altogether, 463 students were able to imagine becoming a teacher and were included in the analyses. SEM analyses showed that (1) of all the competencies, communication had the most associations with motives, (2) the motive ‘low difficulty of study’ is positively related to planning, (3) the findings regarding extrinsic motives are ambiguous, and (4) gender differences are marginal. Practical implications for early teacher education and counselling are discussed.
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Journal of Education for Teaching
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43
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5
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566-580
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Bohndick C, Kohlmeyer S, Buhl HM. Competencies and career choice motives: characteristics of high school students interested in teacher education programmes. Journal of Education for Teaching. 2017;43(5):566-580. doi:10.1080/02607476.2017.1355029
Bohndick, C., Kohlmeyer, S., & Buhl, H. M. (2017). Competencies and career choice motives: characteristics of high school students interested in teacher education programmes. Journal of Education for Teaching, 43(5), 566–580. https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2017.1355029
@article{Bohndick_Kohlmeyer_Buhl_2017, title={Competencies and career choice motives: characteristics of high school students interested in teacher education programmes}, volume={43}, DOI={10.1080/02607476.2017.1355029}, number={5}, journal={Journal of Education for Teaching}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Bohndick, Carla and Kohlmeyer, Susanne and Buhl, Heike M.}, year={2017}, pages={566–580} }
Bohndick, Carla, Susanne Kohlmeyer, and Heike M. Buhl. “Competencies and Career Choice Motives: Characteristics of High School Students Interested in Teacher Education Programmes.” Journal of Education for Teaching 43, no. 5 (2017): 566–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2017.1355029.
C. Bohndick, S. Kohlmeyer, and H. M. Buhl, “Competencies and career choice motives: characteristics of high school students interested in teacher education programmes,” Journal of Education for Teaching, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 566–580, 2017, doi: 10.1080/02607476.2017.1355029.
Bohndick, Carla, et al. “Competencies and Career Choice Motives: Characteristics of High School Students Interested in Teacher Education Programmes.” Journal of Education for Teaching, vol. 43, no. 5, Informa UK Limited, 2017, pp. 566–80, doi:10.1080/02607476.2017.1355029.

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