The purpose of this paper is to investigate higher education faculty’s motivation to teach and to validate the Factors Influencing Teaching Choice (FIT-Choice) survey with this population.,Confirmatory factor analysis and t-tests on data from 101 higher education faculty and data from K-12 teachers show that the two samples fit the model similarly.,Results show that the similarities between the two groups are important to note as it suggests both the value of the FIT-Choice instrument as a research tool in higher education as well as the similarities in motivating factors between higher education faculty and in-service K-12 teachers.,This is one of the first studies to use the FIT-Choice scale with university education faculty.

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教书的动机

本文的目的是调查高校教师教学的动机，并验证影响该人群的教学选择（FIT-Choice）调查的因素。对来自101位高校的数据和来自101位高校的数据的确认性因子分析和t检验K-12教师展示了两个样本相似地拟合该模型。结果表明，两组之间的相似性非常重要，因为这表明FIT-Choice工具作为高等教育研究工具的价值以及高等教育教师与在职K-12教师在激励因素上的相似之处。这是首批将FIT-Choice量表与大学教育教师一起使用的研究之一。