Documenting Undocumented Motives Influencing the Career Choice of the First-Year Science and Math Student Teachers in Indonesia
2019
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the motives that were instrumental in driving the firstyear
science and math student teachers to be a teacher at one public university in Sumatra,
Indonesia. A questionnaire and semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data. 378
participants completed questionnaires consisting of 318 females and 60 males while the interview
data were collected from voluntary participants. The data of the fulfilled questionnaires were
calculated as percentage of their whole results while the data of the interviews were carefully
analysed by looking at the responses from all interviewees. Our results indicated that there was a
trend among participants to regard highly on first altruistic, second intrinsic, and third extrinsic
motives to be a teacher as a career by going into teacher education programs. Policy implications
are also discussed.
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