Enhancing students' engagement by increasing teachers' autonomy support

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 147-169

  Reeve, Johnmarshall ^a   Jang, Hyungshim ^b   Carrell, Dan ^c   Jeon, Soohyun ^a   Barch, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c American College Testing Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Autonomy support; Engagement; High school teachers; Self determination

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142664717     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MOEM.0000032312.95499.6f     Document Type: Article

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