Supporting Autonomy in the Classroom: Ways Teachers Encourage Student Decision Making and Ownership

By C. Stefanou, Kathleen C. Perencevich, Matt DiCintio, Julianne C. Turner. 2004

664 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Allan Wigfield
2. J. Guthrie
3. A. Taboada
4. S. Tonks
5. M. Kunter
6. O. Lüdtke
7. V. Rutherford
8. J. Baumert

In Social Psychology

1. Erika A. Patall
2. O. Lüdtke
3. Ulrich Trautwein
4. Brett D. Jones
5. M. Kunter
6. Richard M. Ryan
7. A. Assor
8. Allan Wigfield

Citations in the corpus

• The Influence of Teacher and Peer Relationships on Students’ Classroom Engagement and Everyday Motivational Resilience (2014, background): “Other autonomy supportive practices include (1) listening to and acknowledging the student’s perspective even if it involves negative affect; (2) creating opportunities for students to work in their own ways; (3) ensuring that students actively engage with each other, materials, and discussion rathe”
• Student autonomy and course value: The unique and cumulative roles of various teacher practices (2013, methodology): “…developed new items that assess students’ perceptions of eight categories of teacher behavior that may support students’ feelings of autonomy (Assor et al. 2002; Belmont et al. 1992; Connell 1990; Wellborn and Connell 1987; Reeve et al. 2004; Reeve and Jang 2006; Reeve 2006; Stefanou et al. 2004).”
• Reading motivation and reading comprehension growth in the later elementary years (2007, result): “Our study supports findings from other researchers showing that choice in the classroom is quite complicated, and deserves to be investigated at a more micro- level ( Stefanou, Perencevich, DiCintio, & Turner, 2004 ).”
• Effects of Autonomy-Supportive Teaching on Student Learning and Motivation (2012, methodology): “The debate continues as to whether and how science classrooms should undergo changes toward more autonomy-supportive formats (Hmelo-Silver et al., 2007; Kirschner et al., 2006; Mayer, 2004; Stefanou et al., 2004; Turner et al., 1998).”
• What makes lessons interesting?: The role of situational and individual factors in three school subjects (2008, background): “Stefanou et al. (2004) hypothesized that cognitive autonomy support gives students an enhanced sense of control, particularly during engagement with cognitive activities (e.g., problem solving).”