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Research Article

Investigating how student-centered and teacher-centered teaching paradigms relate to the academic motivation and learning behaviors of secondary school students in China (Explorando las relaciones entre los modelos pedagógicos centrados en el estudiante y centrados en el docente y la motivación académica y conductas de aprendizaje de los estudiantes de secundaria en China)

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Pages 906-938 | Received 28 Dec 2021, Accepted 31 May 2022, Published online: 27 Sep 2022

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