Preservice Teachers' Motivations to Become a Teacher and their Professional Qualifications

This dataset includes a total of 797 freshman preservice teachers' responses across 21 teacher education programs in different regions of Türkiye by employing non-random sampling approach. Data was collected with an online form given the widespread geographical location of 21 teacher education programs. (Respondents are 632 female, 158 male whereas seven participants chose not to disclose their gender). The average age for participants was 20,75 (SD=3,35).