Abstract

LIMA TOLEDO, Evelyn Jeniffer de  and  COUTINHO, Henrique do Nascimento. COLLEGE DEGREE: choice or lack of options. Rev. Exitus [online]. 2020, vol.10, e020029.  Epub Mar 30, 2022. ISSN 2237-9460.  https://doi.org/10.24065/2237-9460.2020v10n0id1253.

At first, no one disagrees that education is essential to the country's progress. However, this concern does not translate into appreciation of the teaching profession, whether it is in terms of working conditions or salary. Despite all the problems, there are still students who enter undergraduate courses, remain and become teachers throughout the country in various educational institutions. Thus, the purpose of this article was to analyze what motivates students to stay in a degree course in Chemistry at UnB. To answer the research question, the quantitative methodology was used, and a questionnaire based on the Likert type self-determination theory questionnaire was developed. As a result, the instrument was statistically adequate. The medians of the 159 students analyzed are displaced in the most self-regulating sense of the continuum with emphasis on the identified regulation, which shows that the motivation of the students is due to the recognition of the importance of the teaching profession.Moreover, through the correlation calculations it was possible to realize that factors besides being present concomitantly can strengthen the constructs in one direction of the continuum while contributing negatively to the factors in the opposite direction. Thus, we conclude that emotionally responsible attention in needed to foster the perception of the importance of the profession, as there is strong evidence that it is able to contribute to the development of intrinsic motivation to be a teacher.

Keywords : Self-determination; Degree; Quantitative.

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