Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate motivation to teach for higher education faculty within schools of education. Design/methodology/approach This study utilized survey research methods to collect data from higher education faculty at nine universities identified from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of teaching website. Findings The predictor variables of gender, years of teaching in higher education, percent of overall workload devoted to teaching and two dummy variables for type of institution (i.e. doctoral granting and research II institution) when considered together did not statistically significantly predict whether or not a faculty person achieved tenure with outstanding teaching. In total, 14 of the factors influencing teaching (FIT)-choice scale components statistically significantly predicted whether or not a faculty person achieved tenure with outstanding teaching, only social dissuasion statistically significantly added to the model. Originality/value This is the first study to use the FIT-choice scale with university education faculty, and the findings suggest that higher education faculty may be motivated to produce high-quality instruction based on different factors than K-12 teachers.

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通过出色的教学获得终身制

目的本文的目的是研究在教育学校内为高等教育学院教书的动机。设计/方法/方法这项研究使用调查研究方法从卡内基大学教学网站基金会确定的9所大学的高等教育教师中收集数据。研究发现性别的预测变量，高等教育的受教育年限，用于教学的总工作量的百分比以及机构类型（即博士授予和研究II机构）的两个虚拟变量在综合考虑时没有统计学上的显着预测是否教职员工以优异的教学水平获得了任期。总共，影响教学（FIT）-选择量表成分的因素中有14个在统计学上显着预测了教职人员是否通过出色的教学达到任职期，只有在社会上的劝阻在统计学上显着增加了模型。原创性/价值这是第一项将FIT选择量表与大学教育教师一起使用的研究，研究结果表明，与K-12教师不同，高等教育教师可能有动力根据不同的因素进行高质量的教学。