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Autonomy-supportive teaching unit on heat transfer with choices, rationales, and informational language

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Description

A standardized physics teaching unit on heat transfer delivered either with autonomy support or in the regular teaching style. The autonomy-support version entailed "provision of choices, provision of rationales, and informational language". It was taught by students' own physics teachers in 17 real-life classrooms and evaluated against a control condition for effects on need satisfaction, achievement emotions, and self-regulated learning behaviors.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Teachers must deliver the unit with provision of choices, rationales, and informational language as the autonomy-support manipulation

Constraints

  • Evaluated in 9th-grade physics classrooms on a standardized heat-transfer unit

Target Learners

  • 9th-grade physics students

Learning Goals

  • Need satisfaction, achievement emotions, and self-regulated learning behaviors in physics

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Flunger, B., Mayer, A., & Umbach, N. (2019). Beneficial for Some or for Everyone? Exploring the Effects of an Autonomy-Supportive Intervention in the Real-Life Classroom. Journal of Educational Psychology, vol. 111, no. 2, pp. 210-234. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000284
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type design
id autonomy-support-heat-transfer-unit
title Autonomy-supportive teaching unit on heat transfer with choices, rationales, and informational language
description A standardized physics teaching unit on heat transfer delivered either with autonomy support or in the regular teaching style.
status review
generated by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-25
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