@article {1232,
	title = {CHOOSING TEACHING AS A PROFESSION: VALIDATION OF AN SMVUP-4-S ASSESSMENT TOOL},
	journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century},
	volume = {77},
	year = {2019},
	month = {August/2019},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {545-559},
	abstract = {The aim of the present research was to validate the Scale of motivation for choosing teaching profession (SMVUP-4-S), and to explore its basic psychometric properties on a sample of Slovak teacher trainee students. SMVUP-4-S scale was completed by 1235 respondents with a mean age of 20.1 years. SMVUP-4-S scale consists of 44 items arranged into 11 subscales, which are arranged into three main categories of motivation: intrinsic, extrinsic and altruistic. A latent structure of SMVUP model that consists of two four-factor (intrinsic and extrinsic motivation) and a one three-factor model (altruistic motivation) was tested. Internal consistency was assessed using Cronbach{\textquoteright}s alpha. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was calculated using the Maximum Likelihood estimation. To evaluate Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) χ2-test, CFI, RMSEA, SRMR, AIC, BIC and TLI indicators were used. SMVUP-4-S scale showed an acceptable internal consistency. Using EFA two four-factor and one three-factor model were extracted. CFA indicated that four-factor models had a good fit to the empirical data (Intrinsic motivation χ2/df  = 4.925, Extrinsic motivation χ2/df = 4.781). Modifying indexes have shown that several items have correlated  with residual variances which leads to low fit to the empirical data in three-factor-model. After the implementation of covariants between items this model has also shown a good fit to the empirical data (Altruistic motivation χ2/df  = 4.715). 
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	keywords = {career choice, psychological assessment, teacher development, teacher motivation},
	issn = {1822-7864},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/pec/19.77.545},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2019/457-1566969462.pdf},
	author = {Robert Tom{\v s}ik}
}
