Beware of your teaching style: A school-year long investigation of controlling teaching and student motivational experiences

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 53, Issue , 2018, Pages 50-63

  Bartholomew, Kimberley J ^a   Ntoumanis, Nikos ^b   Mouratidis, Athanasios ^c,e   Katartzi, Ermioni ^d   Thøgersen Ntoumani, Cecilie ^b   Vlachopoulos, Symeon ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^e TED UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Controlling teaching; Need frustration; Physical education; Self determination theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026405919     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2017.07.006     Document Type: Article

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