When teachers learn how to provide classroom structure in an autonomy-supportive way: Benefits to teachers and their students

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 90, Issue , 2020, Pages

  Cheon, Sung Hyeon ^a   Reeve, Johnmarshall ^b   Vansteenkiste, Maarten ^c  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Autonomy support; Intervention; Motivating style; Need satisfaction; Structure; Teaching efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85079434362     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2019.103004     Document Type: Article

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