The Effect of Preservice Teachers’ Instrumentality on Their Motivation in Required Courses for Teacher Education

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Abstract

This study examined the effect of pre-service teachers’ instrumentality (understanding of the instrumental value of current tasks for future goals) on their motivation. 206 participants were from a school and 144 participants were from another school. A survey consisted of a demographic and a motivation section to measure students’ instrumentality (endogenous/exogenous) and motivation (intrinsic/extrinsic). SEM analysis result showed the measurement model had good fit of the data (χ2=123.255; df=57; CFI=0.962; RMSEA=0.058; SRMR=0.054) and the full-structural model had good fit of the data (χ2=126.346; df=59; CFI=0.962; RMSEA=0.057; SRMR=0.055). A chi-square difference test was computed (χ2dif = 3.091; dfdif=2) and the test result said two models were not significantly different, so the final full-structural model was chosen because the model was simpler.

Authors

• Jumi Lee, The Florida State University

• Jeannine E. Turner, Florida State University

• Kyunghwa Cho, Florida State University

• Sung-On Hwang, Florida State University