Teaching Aptitude Quest
Learning and Pedagogy
Which of the following factors supports learning in a classroom? 1) Increasing the number of tests to motivate children to learn 2) Supporting the autonomy of children by the teachers 3) Sticking to one particular method of instruction to maintain uniformity 4) Increasing the time interval of periods from 40 minutes to 50 minutes
Behavior is autonomous when students freely endorse what they are doing in the classroom, and this inner endorsement of one's actions is most likely to happen when students' inner motivational resources guide their on-going classroom engagement.It includes not only greater perceived autonomy and greater psychological need satisfaction during learning activities but also greater classroom engagement, more positive emotionality, higher mastery motivation, greater intrinsic motivation, a preference for optimal challenge over easy success, higher creativity, enhanced psychological well-being, active and deeper information processing, greater conceptual understanding, higher academic achievement, and greater persistence in school.