Volume : VII, Issue : III, March - 2017

MOTIVES OF D.TED STUDENT TEACHER‘S FOR CHOOSING TEACHING AS THEIR PROFESSION

Dr. K. Sheeba

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 The views of student teachers are frequently overlooked in research on education, but their attitudes towards school, attitudes towards their professional development, moral character involvement, altruistic feel, balancing both negative and positive emotion and personal and social influence that are more specifically important because of the relationship between their views as student teachers and their later practice in the teacher education program make an impact of teaching profession and the quality that student teachers receive as future teachers are well motivated in teaching. The data for the present study were collected from a population of D.T.Ed student teachers. In the present study, Survey Method is employed to describe and interpret. The sample size chosen for D.T.Ed., student teachers are 500 (250 Male and 250 Female) from the Pudukkottai District, Tamil Nadu, India. Results revealed: (i) The female student teachers has manifested significantly higher level in all the selected variables when compared to their counter parts. (ii) The independent variables correlate significantly with motivation positively. (iii) The coefficient of determination R square measures the goodness–of–fit, the value is 0.252 and this means that the variables such as positive and negative emotion, altruism, moral value, teacher‘s attitude and personal and social influence contributes to the extent of 25.2% to motivation and it is significant at 1% level. 

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Dr. K. SHEEBA, MOTIVES OF D.TED STUDENT TEACHER‘S FOR CHOOSING TEACHING AS THEIR PROFESSION, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾3 | March‾2017

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