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ERIC Number: EJ1463223
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Dec
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ISSN: ISSN-1381-2890
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1928
Available Date: 2025-01-30
How an Autonomy-Supportive Learning Environment Influences Students' Achievements in Science and Mathematics
Hnin Yu Soe1,2,3; Danhui Zhang4; Dingmeng Fu5; Yiran Cui6
Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, v28 n1 Article 53 2025
In Eastern cultures, teaching is challenging due to students' increasing needs for autonomy and refusal to be controlled in traditional ways. Understanding the relationship between autonomy-supportive practices and students' learning outcome is essential for assisting teachers to create supportive learning environment to satisfy the needs for autonomy and intrinsic motivation. Using self-determination theory, we investigated how an autonomy-supportive environment related to students' need of autonomy, motivation, and achievement in science and mathematics. We considered the association between the autonomy support from school, teacher, and family and the students' achievement in both science and mathematics. A sample of 810 8th grade students, 15 science teachers and 15 mathematics teachers from 15 schools in Myanmar were included. Multilevel structure equation modelling was used to examine the relationships among variables from both individual and school level. Overall findings indicated that students' perceived teacher and parent autonomy support were significantly associated with the students' engagement, anxiety, and academic achievement in both science and mathematics. Teachers' perceived autonomy from school significantly related to students' perceived autonomy support from their teachers. In addition, teachers' perceived autonomy from school indirectly related to students' achievement in science and directly related to students' achievement in mathematics. The finding also showed no synergistic effect between teacher autonomy support and parent autonomy support on students' outcome variables.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 8; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Burma
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Author Affiliations: 1Beijing Normal University, Faculty of Education, Beijing, China; 2Sagaing University of Education, Department of Methodology, Sagaing, Myanmar; 3Non-government Organization, Yangon, Myanmar; 4Beijing Normal University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment for Basic Education Quality, Haidian, Beijing, P.R. China; 5Beijing Institute of Education, Beijing, China; 6Shandong University, College of International Education, Institute for Advanced Studies in Education, Jinan, P.R. China