Preservice Teachers' Motivations to Become a Teacher and their Professional Qualifications
Description
This dataset includes a total of 797 freshman preservice teachers' responses across 21 teacher education programs in different regions of Türkiye by employing non-random sampling approach. Data was collected with an online form given the widespread geographical location of 21 teacher education programs. (Respondents are 632 female, 158 male whereas seven participants chose not to disclose their gender). The average age for participants was 20,75 (SD=3,35).
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Dataset was created by collecting and combining responses 797 freshman preservice teachers’ responses to the online form. The online form included five different data collection tools. The first one was the demographic information form where participants answered questions about their age, gender and program. The second one was ‘Choosing Teaching Profession as a Career Scale (CTPCS)’ developed by Lai et al. (2005).The third measurement tool was Attitudes towards Teaching Profession Scale (ATTPS) developed by Kahramanoğlu et al. (2018). The fourth scale was The Scale of Commitment to Teaching Profession (SCTP) developed by Yıldız (2020). The fifth scale was Readiness Scale for Teaching Profession (RSTP), developed by Güven Yıldırım and Köklükaya (2017).