Evaluation and Research in Education
Editor: Professor Keith Morrison, Inter-University Institute of Macau
Associate Editor: Professor Stephen Gorard, University of York
Statistical Adviser: Professor Colin Baker, University of Wales Bangor
Reviews Editor: Dr. Emma Smith, University of York
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Volume: 15 Number: 1 Page: 17–32
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Training to Teach: Motivating Factors and Implications for Recruitment
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Anne Moran, Rosemary Kilpatrick, Lesley Abbott, John Dallat and Billy McClune
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With the decline in applications to teach, this paper examines why teaching is chosen as a career, and considers the extent to which a range of factors identified within a sample of 466 Northern Ireland
students was consistent with those identified in the United States, the rest of the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Using analysis of variance, the study also compares the influence of the different factors
on sub-groups within the group of teacher trainees surveyed. It is based on the responses to a questionnaire administered to students involved in initial teacher training. The findings showed that, in keeping
with earlier research, those in the process of training to teach were attracted to the profession largely for intrinsic reasons, although, to a lesser extent, there was extrinsic motivation too. The implications
of these findings are considered in the light of the government's recent teacher recruitment initiatives.
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