Paul W Richardson

Biographic Data

ID1503014
NAMEPaul W Richardson
GIVEN NAMESPaul W
FAMILY NAMERichardson
SIGNATURERICHARDSON P W
AFFILIATIONSMonash University, Monash University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Interest in science and mathematics teaching among non-science/mathematics initial teacher education candidates

    Open AccessSuzanne Rice, Helen M G Watts et al.ARTICLEEducational Review2025References: 54

    Many countries are experiencing teacher shortages, with particularly long-standing issues in attraction and retention in secondary science and mathematics. Policy initiatives often focus on science and mathematics undergraduates, with the aim of encouraging them to consider teaching by offering scholarships into teacher education or fast-tracking into employment permanency. However, those who have already chosen to teach in non-science and mathem…

  • An introduction to teaching motivations in different countries

    Helen M G Watts, Helen M G Watt et al.ARTICLEAsia-Pacific Journal of Teacher…2012

    The FIT-Choice program of research (Factors Influencing Teaching Choice; http://www.fitchoice.org) began in 2001, prompted by two questions that had been forming for Richardson over the course of a...

  • Motivations, perceptions, and aspirations concerning teaching as a career for different types of beginning teachers

    Open AccessHelen M G Watts, Helen M G Watt et al.ARTICLELearning and Instruction2008

  • Motivational Factors Influencing Teaching as a Career Choice

    Helen M G Watts, Helen M G Watt et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Experimental…2007

    The authors apply current influential models from the motivational literature to develop the comprehensive factors influencing teaching choice (FIT-Choice) scale, to measure factors influencing the choice to teach for beginning preservice teacher education candidates. They validate the scale using 2 large cohorts (N = 488; 652) and describe the factors that teacher education candidates identified as most important in their decision to teach. Furt…

  • Who Chooses Teaching and Why? Profiling Characteristics and Motivations Across Three Australian Universities

    Paul W Richardson, Paul Richardson et al.ARTICLEAsia-Pacific Journal of Teacher…2006

    In this large‐scale Australian study, we profile the background characteristics and teaching motivations for individuals entering teacher education across three major established urban teacher provider universities in the Australian States of New South Wales and Victoria. Our recently developed and validated “FIT‐Choice” (Factors Influencing Teaching Choice) Scale determines the strength of influence for a range of motivations from individuals ch…

  • Reading and writing from textbooks in higher education

    Paul W Richardson, Paul RichardsonARTICLEStudies in Higher Education2004Cited by: 5References: 10

    Reading and writing at university is infused by the cultural context of a particular discipline or field so that academic literacies are located, described, interpreted and studied in disciplinary contexts. This study explores the roles and functions textbooks have in the disciplinary culture of Economics in the academy, where there are many introductory‐level textbooks that are designed to formalize and standardize disciplinary induction. It unc…