Teacher support, student motivation, student need satisfaction, and college teacher course evaluations: Testing a sequential path model

Educational Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 711-724

  Filak, Vincent F ^a   Sheldon, Kennon M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

College teaching; Course evaluations; Need satisfaction; Self determination

Indexed keywords

EID: 51749103499     PISSN: 01443410     EISSN: 14695820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01443410802337794     Document Type: Article

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