Table 3.

Practice motivations and supports by currently registered ECTs: Factor loadings and descriptive statistics

	Rotated factor loadings			Descriptive statistics
	Workplace (α  = .81)	Requirements (α  = .78)	Self (α  = .67)	M	SD
The educators you work with support your development as a teacher	.66	.06	.17	3.79	1.00
The educators you work with motivate you to improve your practice	.64	.16	.09	3.88	1.04
Your employer supports your development as a teacher	.63	.20	.09	3.91	1.15
Your employer motivates you to improve your practice	.60	.02	.19	3.68	1.10
The process of attaining/maintaining teacher registration supports you to improve your practice	.10	.67	.08	3.24	1.12
The process of attaining/maintaining teacher registration motivates you to improve your practice	.10	.64	.06	3.14	1.19
The NQF and its assessment and rating process support you to improve your practice	.16	.55	.25	3.34	1.11
The NQF and its assessment and rating process motivate you to improve your practice	.07	.50	.27	3.57	1.12
Your professional self supports your development as a teacher (e.g., passion and commitment to high quality ECE; intrinsic drive for quality improvement)	.12	.21	.44	4.60	0.75
Your professional self motivates you to improve your practice (e.g., passion and commitment to high quality ECE; intrinsic drive for quality improvement)	.22	.11	.42	4.57	0.93

NQF National Quality Framework

Image factoring with varimax rotation converged in 5 iterations; listwise N = 394

Bold indicates highest loadings

All items were rated on a 5-point scale from 1: Strongly disagree, 2: Disagree, 3: Neither agree nor disagree, 4: Agree, 5: Strongly agree