Description
Interest group: SIG 08 - Motivation and EmotionSession S18 Symposium: Teacher motivation, teaching and student motivation: Empirical perspectives
Keywords: Motivation, Quantitative Methods, School Effectiveness, Student Learning, Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching/Instruction
Chairperson: Rebecca Lazarides, University of Potsdam, Germany
Discussant: Helen Watt, The University of Sydney, Australia
Teacher motivation is a central aspect of teachers’ professional competence and has been shown to be of great importance for effective teaching. In the last decade, research has started to systematically investigate facets of teachers’ motivation and their relations to teaching behaviors from different theoretical perspectives. Although research has provided evidence for the importance of teaching motivation for teaching behaviors in a great variety of cross-sectional studies, open research questions pertain, for example regarding the question of interrelations between different facets of teacher motivation and different characteristics of teaching. Addressing current developments in the field of international research on teacher motivation, this symposium brings together empirical research from four countries (Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Switzerland) and aims to investigate how different facets of teacher motivation and teaching behaviors are interrelated. The presented studies use complex research methods (e.g., mixture modeling, longitudinal designs, multilevel models) and designs (e.g., video ratings; teacher and student surveys). The studies presented are well-grounded in established theories (e.g., achievement goal theory, intrinsic orientations, job-demands resource model). Thereby, all studies coherently focus on the interrelations between teacher motivation and teaching quality. Results suggest that links between teacher motivation and teaching quality are less clear than expected (studies 1 and 2), and that the source of information (study 3) and school environment (study 4) need to be considered when examining relations between teacher motivation and teaching behavior. Our discussant is a well-established expert in the field of teacher motivation and will outline theoretical implications, and perspectives for future research.
| Period | 26-Aug-2021 |
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| Held at | EARLI (European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction), Belgium |
| Degree of Recognition | International |