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Sabine Sypré; Bart Soenens; Maarten Vansteenkiste; Karine Verschueren – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Higher-level questioning is an instructional method often recommended to challenge cognitively gifted students. However, professional development is needed to help teachers improve their ability to ask higher-level questions. Therefore, we developed an intervention based on Bloom's taxonomy, consisting of a 2-h session in which teachers learn how…
Descriptors: Gifted, Faculty Development, Learner Engagement, Student Motivation
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Cohen, Rinat; Katz, Idit; Aelterman, Nathalie; Vansteenkiste, Maarten – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
Students' adaptive motivation to study tends to decrease over time. However, the reasons for this decline are not fully understood. Drawing on self-determination theory (SDT), we investigated whether changes in teachers' motivating style and students' associated need-based experiences could explain the motivational decline documented in the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Teaching Styles, Motivation Techniques, Educational Change
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Mouratidis, Athanasios; Barkoukis, Vassilis; Tsorbatzoudis, Charalambos – European Physical Education Review, 2015
Self-determination theory posits that satisfaction of the needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness represents the basic nutriments for humans' optimal functioning. It also postulates that with greater the degree to which these three needs are equally satisfied, the quality of motivation is further enhanced. Yet, this premise has remained…
Descriptors: Need Gratification, Motivation, Physical Education, Adolescents