A New Autonomy-Supportive Way of Teaching That Increases Conceptual Learning: Teaching in Students' Preferred Ways
- Authors
- Jang, Hyungshim; Reeve, Johnmarshall; Halusic, Marc
- Issue Date
- 2016
- Publisher
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Keywords
- autonomy; autonomy support; conceptual learning; engagement; teaching
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL EDUCATION, v.84, no.4, pp.686 - 701
- Indexed
- SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL EDUCATION
- Volume
- 84
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 686
- End Page
- 701
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/90207
- DOI
- 10.1080/00220973.2015.1083522
- ISSN
- 0022-0973
- Abstract
- We tested the educational utility of teaching in students' preferred ways as a new autonomy-supportive way of teaching to enhance students' autonomy and conceptual learning. A pilot test first differentiated preferred versus nonpreferred ways of teaching. In the main study, a hired teacher who was blind to the purpose of the study taught 63 college-age participants in small groups the same 48-minute lesson in one of these two different ways, and we assessed participants' perceived autonomy support, autonomy-need satisfaction, engagement (self-report and rater scored), and conceptual learning (self-report and rater scored). Multilevel analyses showed that participants randomly assigned to receive a preferred way of teaching perceived the teacher as more autonomy supportive and showed significantly greater autonomy-need satisfaction, engagement, and conceptual learning. Mediation analyses using multilevel modeling for clustered data showed that this way of teaching enhanced conceptual learning because it first increased students' autonomy. We conclude that teaching in students' preferred ways represents a way of teaching that increases students' autonomy, engagement, and conceptual learning.
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