🔍 Stage 1 — Define Your Topic

Please provide the topic or research question you want to search in Scopus.
You can share a full research question, a brief phrase, or just the general idea you’re exploring.
Once I have that, we’ll move on to structuring your search using the PCC framework.

determinants of teaching career

Thank you!

To confirm: your topic is “determinants of teaching career”, which we understand as exploring the factors that influence individuals to choose, enter, or remain in the teaching profession.

Now let’s structure this search systematically.

📘 Stage 2 — PCC Framework Introduction

We’ll structure your search using the PCC model:

Population: Who or what is the main group of interest?

Concept: What is the core idea, issue, or intervention?

Context: In what setting or environment?

Let’s begin with Population.

👥 Population — Define the Group of Interest

Based on your topic, here are three levels of population you might consider:

🔹 Broad: All educators — including school teachers, lecturers, faculty, instructors.

🔹 Medium: Pre-service or in-service teachers — individuals studying to become teachers or those currently in the field.

🔹 Narrow: STEM female pre-service teachers — a very specific subgroup with focus on subject area and gender.

👉 Please choose one of these, or feel free to define your own population level. Once confirmed, we’ll move on to the Concept.

individuals who want to become teachers

Excellent — thank you!

So, your chosen Population is:

Individuals who want to become teachers, which aligns with pre-service teachers or aspiring teachers.

We’ll make sure to include relevant synonyms and variants in the search later on.

🎯 Stage 3 — Concept

Now let’s define the Concept, which refers to the core focus of your topic:

The determinants or influencing factors related to pursuing a teaching career.

Here are some suggested synonyms and alternative formulations for this concept:

determinants

influencing factors

motivation OR motivations

career choice OR career decision

👉 Please review and let me know:

Are these suitable?

Would you like to add, remove, or revise any of them?

Once confirmed, we’ll move on to defining the Context.

yes

Perfect — we now have:

Population: Individuals who want to become teachers (pre-service / aspiring teachers)

Concept: Determinants, influencing factors, motivations, or career choice

🌍 Stage 4 — Context

Now let’s define the Context, which refers to the setting or environment where your research is focused.

Here are 3 sample levels of context, depending on your scope:

🔹 Broad: Any global context — no country or education system restrictions

🔹 Medium: Higher education institutions or teacher education programs

🔹 Narrow: Specific country or region (e.g., “India”, “Sub-Saharan Africa”, “OECD countries”)

👉 Please choose your preferred context or specify your own (e.g., a region, education level, or institutional setting). Once we have this, I’ll build your full Scopus search strategy in three levels.

global, focus on becoming teachers at school level, not unversity

Great — thanks for clarifying!

We’ll structure the Context as:

Global, with a focus on becoming school-level teachers (e.g., primary or secondary), not university-level faculty.

🧩 Summary of Your PCC

Here’s the finalized structure:

Component Your Selection
Population Individuals who want to become teachers (pre-service / aspiring school teachers)
Concept Determinants, influencing factors, motivations, career choice
Context Global scope, school-level teaching
🏗️ Stage 5 — Build Scopus Search Blocks

Now I’ll generate three complete Scopus search blocks: Broad, Medium, and Narrow.
Each one will use TITLE-ABS-KEY(…) and proper Boolean logic.

🔍 Broad Search Block

Casts a wide net across all aspiring school teachers globally.

TITLE-ABS-KEY(
(«pre-service teacher*» OR «preservice teacher*» OR «aspiring teacher*» OR «future teacher*» OR «prospective teacher*» OR «student teacher*»)
AND
(«determinant*» OR «influencing factor*» OR motivation* OR «career choice*» OR «career decision*»)
AND
(«school teacher*» OR «primary teacher*» OR «secondary teacher*» OR «K-12» OR «basic education»)
)

🔍 Medium Search Block

Focuses more specifically on teacher education or training pathways.

TITLE-ABS-KEY(
(«pre-service teacher*» OR «preservice teacher*» OR «teacher trainee*» OR «student teacher*»)
AND
(«determinant*» OR motivation* OR «career choice*» OR «career decision*» OR «career interest*»)
AND
(«teacher education» OR «teacher training» OR «school teaching career» OR «teaching profession»)
)

🔍 Narrow Search Block

Targets highly focused results — only school-level pre-service teachers with strong career motivation framing.

TITLE-ABS-KEY(
(«aspiring school teacher*» OR «pre-service school teacher*» OR «student school teacher*»)
AND
(«career motivation» OR «choice to teach» OR «factors influencing teaching career» OR «decision to become a teacher»)
AND
(«primary school» OR «secondary school» OR «K-12» OR «basic education»)
)

🧪 Stage 6 — Filters and Refinement Suggestions
🔎 Suggested Scopus Filters:

Document type: Article, Review

Language: English (or your preferred languages)

Year range: Last 10–15 years (e.g., 2010–2025)

Subject areas: Social Sciences, Education, Psychology

🛠️ Refinement Tips:

Review initial results: check for relevance in titles/abstracts.

Adjust synonyms if too broad or too narrow.

Use quotation marks for exact phrases.

Use * for truncation (e.g., teach → teaches, teaching, teacher).

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