Factors that Influence Students to Become Teachers

Autor:	Elena C. Papanastasiou, Constantinos Papanastasiou
Rok vydání:	1997
Předmět:	Higher education business.industry Interpersonal influence Mathematics education Primary education business Psychology Career choice Education Variety (cybernetics) Social influence
Zdroj:	Educational Research and Evaluation. 3:305-316
ISSN:	1744-4187 1380-3611
Popis:	The purpose of this study was to identify and compare the factors that had influenced students at the Pennsylvania State University and at the University of Cyprus to major in elementary education. A questionnaire was completed by 157 students from PSU and by 176 students from the UC. The factors that were identified were variety of benefits, internal motives, status of the profession, interpersonal influence and academic ability. The factor “internal motives” was the strongest factor that influenced students from the PSU to major in elementary education. The factors which were highly influential for the students of the University of Cyprus to enter the same major, were the “variety of benefits” and the “status of the profession”.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz:	https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::3d804af108c2d8c23ce28551ea4f8172 https://doi.org/10.1080/1380361970030402 Zobrazit plný text záznamu