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Maarten Vansteenkiste; Nathalie Aelterman; Leen Haerens; Bart Soenens – Advances in Motivation and Achievement, 2019
Given the complexity of societal, technological, and economic challenges encountered by schools and teachers, one may wonder whether and how teachers can still optimally motivate their students. To adopt a motivating role in today's ever-changing, even stormy, educational landscape, teachers need more than a checklist of motivating practices. They…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Learning Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Self Determination
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Liu, Wei; Lin, Xiaobing – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2016
Discussed in this article are the different governance models in international student services in Canadian and Chinese universities. Informing this study were 39 international student service providers from 38 top Chinese universities while interacting with their Canadian counterparts in a professional development program in Canada. The derived…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Need Gratification, Governance, Foreign Students
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Barkoukis, Vassilis; Hagger, Martin S.; Lambropoulos, George; Tsorbatzoudis, Haralambos – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Background: The trans-contextual model (TCM) is an integrated model of motivation that aims to explain the processes by which agentic support for autonomous motivation in physical education promotes autonomous motivation and physical activity in a leisure-time context. It is proposed that perceived support for autonomous motivation in physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Needs, Physical Education, Physical Activities
Williams, Robert; And Others – 1978
This monograph focuses on adult education programs and (1) why needs assessment is necessary, (2) how to assess needs, (3) how to assess the needs of special groups, and (4) how to assess program needs. In the first of four sections the administrator's role is described, and the term "needs" is defined. Models are proposed for individual and…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students