Poster #12 - Preservice Teachers' Profiles of Motivation for Choosing Teaching as a Career and Their Self-Efficacy

• In Event: 34.099 - MTCC Poster Session Seven
  In Poster Session: 34.099-2 - College Student Learning and Development

Abstract

Numerous competence models report the key position of motivational dimensions and emphasize its importance for the teacher profession. Against the backdrop of expectancy-value-theory and the fit-choice model, this study aims to predict the domain-specific self-efficacy beliefs of preservice teachers by means of their motivation profiles From this point of view, it leads to a discussion to what extent the initial positions are more or less favorable for their studies With the sample of 405 Austrian preservice teachers, a latent class analysis was applied and four classes were identified. The results indicate that students with a more realistic and balanced motivational profile show higher levels of efficacy.

Authors

• Anna Maria Eder, University of Salzburg

• Burkhard Gniewosz, University of Salzburg

• Andreas Bach, University of Salzburg

• Michaela Katstaller, Paris Lodron University Salzburg

• Franz Hofmann