3,439
Views
3
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Learning-Environment Uncertainty and Students’ Approaches to Learning: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective

ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon
Pages 559-573 | Received 26 Apr 2021, Accepted 30 Jan 2022, Published online: 25 Feb 2022

References

  • Aelterman, N., Vansteenkiste, M., Haerens, L., Soenens, B., Fontaine, J. R., & Reeve, J. (2019). Toward an integrative and fine-grained insight in motivating and demotivating teaching styles: The merits of a circumplex approach. Journal of Educational Psychology, 111(3), 497. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000293
  • Amoura, C., Berjot, S., Gillet, N., Caruana, S., Cohen, J., & Finez, L. (2015). Autonomy-supportive and controlling styles of teaching. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 74(3), 141–158. https://doi.org/10.1024/1421-0185/a000156
  • Asikainen, H., & Gijbels, D. (2017). Do students develop towards more deep approaches to learning during studies? A systematic review on the development of students’ deep and surface approaches to learning in higher education. Educational Psychology Review, 29(2), 205–234. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-017-9406-6
  • Assor, A., Kaplan, H., Kanat-Maymon, Y., & Roth, G. (2005). Directly controlling teacher behaviors as predictors of poor motivation and engagement in girls and boys: The role of anger and anxiety. Learning and Instruction, 15(5), 397–413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2005.07.008
  • Baeten, M., Dochy, F., & Struyven, K. (2013). The effects of different learning environments on students’ motivation for learning and their achievement. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 83(3), 484–501. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8279.2012.02076.x
  • Baeten, M., Dochy, F., Struyven, K., Parmentier, E., & Vanderbruggen, A. (2016). Student-centred learning environments: An investigation into student teachers’ instructional preferences and approaches to learning. Learning Environments Research, 19(1), 43–62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10984-015-9190-5
  • Baeten, M., Kyndt, E., Struyven, K., & Dochy, F. (2010). Using student-centred learning environments to stimulate deep approaches to learning: Factors encouraging or discouraging their effectiveness. Educational research review, 5(3), 243–260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2010.06.001
  • Bartholomew, K. J., Ntoumanis, N., Mouratidis, A., Katartzi, E., Thøgersen-Ntoumani, C., & Vlachopoulos, S. (2018). Beware of your teaching style: A school-year long investigation of controlling teaching and student motivational experiences. Learning and Instruction, 53, 50–63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2017.07.006
  • Bazeley, P. (2013). Qualitative data analysis: Practical strategies. Sage.
  • Brown, T., Fong, K. N., Bonsaksen, T., Lan, T. H., Murdolo, Y., Gonzalez, P. C., & Beng, L. H. (2017). Approaches to learning among occupational therapy undergraduate students: A cross-cultural study. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 24(4), 299–310. https://doi.org/10.1080/11038128.2016.1229811
  • Collie, R. J., Granziera, H., & Martin, A. J. (2019). Teachers’ motivational approach: Links with students’ basic psychological need frustration, maladaptive engagement, and academic outcomes. Teaching and Teacher Education, 86, 102872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2019.07.002
  • De Meyer, J., Tallir, I. B., Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., Aelterman, N., Van den Berghe, L., & Haerens, L. (2014). Does observed controlling teaching behavior relate to students’ motivation in physical education? Journal of Educational Psychology, 106(2), 541–554. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034399
  • Entwistle, N. (2003). Concepts and conceptual frameworks underpinning the ETL project. Occasional report, 3, 3–4.
  • Entwistle, N. J. (2018). Student learning and academic understanding: A research perspective and implications for teaching. Elsevier.
  • Fraser, B. J. (1998). The birth of a new journal: Editor's introduction. Learning Environments Research, 1(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009994030661
  • Gagné, M., & Deci, E. L. (2005). Self-determination theory and work motivation. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26(4), 331–362. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.322
  • Haerens, L., Vansteenkiste, M., Aelterman, N., & Van den Berghe, L. (2016). Toward a systematic study of the dark side of student motivation: Antecedents and consequences of teachers’ controlling behaviors. In W. C. Liu, J. C. K. Wang, & R. M. Ryan (Eds.), Building autonomous learners (pp. 59–81). Springer.
  • Kyndt, E. (2011). Investigating students’ approaches to learning. The role of perceived workload, perceived task complexity, working memory capacity, attention and motivation, and their predictive role of academic performance [Doctoral thesis, Katholieke universiteit Leuven]. https://limo.libis.be/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=LIRIAS1939020&context=L&vid=Lirias&search_scope=Lirias&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US&fromSitemap=1
  • Laird, T. F. N., Shoup, R., Kuh, G. D., & Schwarz, M. J. (2008). The effects of discipline on deep approaches to student learning and college outcomes. Research in Higher Education, 49(6), 469–494. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-008-9088-5
  • Lindblom-Ylänne, S., Parpala, A., & Postareff, L. (2019). What constitutes the surface approach to learning in the light of new empirical evidence? Studies in Higher Education, 44(12), 2183–2195. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2018.1482267
  • Maxwell, J. A., & Miller, B. A. (2008). Categorizing and connecting strategies in qualitative data analysis. In P. Leavy & S. Hesse-Biber (Eds.), Handbook of emergent methods (pp. 461–477). Guilford Press.
  • Miles, M. B., & Huberman, A. M. (1994). Qualitative data analysis: An expanded sourcebook. Sage.
  • Öhrstedt, M., & Lindfors, P. (2016). Students’ adoption of course-specific approaches to learning in two parallel courses. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 31(2), 209–223. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-015-0256-7
  • Perlman, D. (2013). The influence of the social context on students in-class physical activity. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 32(1), 46–60. https://doi.org/10.1123/jtpe.32.1.46
  • Ramsden, P. (2003). Learning to teach in higher education. Routledge.
  • Reeve, J. (2009). Why teachers adopt a controlling motivating style toward students and how they can become more autonomy supportive. Educational Psychologist, 44(3), 159–175. https://doi.org/10.1080/00461520903028990
  • Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. (2000). Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations: Classic definitions and new directions. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 25(1), 54–67. https://doi.org/10.1006/ceps.1999.1020
  • Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. (2020). Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation from a self-determination theory perspective: Definitions, theory, practices, and future directions. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 61, Article 101860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2020.101860
  • Soenens, B., Sierens, E., Vansteenkiste, M., Dochy, F., & Goossens, L. (2012). Psychologically controlling teaching: Examining outcomes, antecedents, and mediators. Journal of Educational Psychology, 104(1), 108. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025742
  • Sun, H., Li, W., & Shen, B. (2017). Learning in physical education: A self-determination theory perspective. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 36(3), 277–291. https://doi.org/10.1123/jtpe.2017-0067
  • Turner, M., & Baskerville, R. (2013). The experience of deep learning by accounting students. Accounting Education, 22(6), 582–604. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639284.2013.847323
  • Vansteenkiste, M., Lens, W., & Deci, E. L. (2006). Intrinsic versus extrinsic goal contents in self-determination theory: Another look at the quality of academic motivation. Educational Psychologist, 41(1), 19–31. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15326985ep4101_4
  • Vansteenkiste, M., & Ryan, R. M. (2013). On psychological growth and vulnerability: Basic psychological need satisfaction and need frustration as a unifying principle. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 23(3), 263. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032359