Are Pre-service Teachers Prepared to Teach? Investigating their Locus of Control, Self-efficacy and Attitude towards the Teaching Profession and Teaching Subjects

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dc.contributor.authorKavenuke, Patrick Severine
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-01T14:10:05Z
dc.date.available2021-12-01T14:10:05Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThe study examined pre-service teachers’ preparedness to teach using a sample of final-year students (n=454) in a Tanzanian teacher education university. The study measured pre-service teachers’ preparedness to teach using four dimensions—internal locus of control, self-efficacy, attitude towards the teaching profession and attitude towards teaching subjects. With exceptions of relatively low teachers’ attitude towards the teaching profession, results indicated that student teachers have higher levels of self-efficacy, positive internal locus of control and positive attitude towards teaching subjects. Also, a significant difference (p ˂ 0.05) was found between teaching subjects on the dimension of locus of control with social science majors having higher locus of control than science and mathematics majors. Future employment intentions had significant impacts (p ˂ 0.05) on student teachers’ attitude towards teaching with those intending to work in non-teaching sector having significantly lower attitude. Regression results indicated that working with students and pre-service teachers’ persistence were strong predictors of overall pre-service teachers’ attitude towards teaching (R² = 0.319). Results further revealed that 40.2 % of pre-service teachers regret that they chose the teaching profession and 56.2% are not intending to work as teachers after graduation.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAPA 6th Editionen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5828
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPapers in Education and Developmenten_US
dc.subjectattitude towards teaching profession, self-efficacy of pedagogical content knowledge, student-teachers, teaching professionen_US
dc.titleAre Pre-service Teachers Prepared to Teach? Investigating their Locus of Control, Self-efficacy and Attitude towards the Teaching Profession and Teaching Subjectsen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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