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Helen Margaret Gilchrist Watt
Researcher at University of Sydney
Publications - 121
Citations - 7257
Helen Margaret Gilchrist Watt is an academic researcher from University of Sydney. The author has contributed to research in topics: Teacher education & Academic achievement. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 115 publications receiving 6253 citations. Previous affiliations of Helen Margaret Gilchrist Watt include Monash University & University of Michigan.
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Motivational factors influencing teaching as a career choice: Development and validation of the FIT-Choice Scale.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply current influential models from the motivational literature to develop the comprehensive factors influencing teaching choice (FIT-Choice) scale, to measure factors influencing the choice to teach for beginning preservice teacher education candidates.
Who Chooses Teaching and Why? Profiling Characteristics and Motivations Across Three Australian
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors profile the background characteristics and teaching motivations for individuals entering teacher education across three major established urban teacher provider universities in the Australian States of New South Wales and Victoria.
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Motivations, perceptions, and aspirations concerning teaching as a career for different types of beginning teachers
TL;DR: The professional plans, satisfaction levels, demographic characteristics, perceptions and motivations of different teacher types distinguished by cluster analysis were investigated among graduate-entry primary and secondary teacher education candidates from three Australian universities in an ongoing longitudinal study as discussed by the authors.
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Who Chooses Teaching and Why? Profiling Characteristics and Motivations Across Three Australian Universities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors profile the background characteristics and teaching motivations for individuals entering teacher education across three major established urban teacher provider universities in the Australian States of New South Wales and Victoria.
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Development of adolescents' self-perceptions, values, and task perceptions according to gender and domain in 7th- through 11th-grade Australian students.
TL;DR: Self-perceptions and values declined through adolescence, and ratings about difficulty and effort required increased; gender differences favored boys for math and girls for English, with little evidence for gender intensification or gender convergence hypotheses.