There are different manners of teaching a spreadsheet program. In any case, it is intended that the teacher settles the objectives of the course and adapts them to the particular audience he/she has to deal with. This paper aims at providing any teacher whatever his/her specific objectives and his/her audience with elements to help him/her building a course. It focuses mainly on two important i...

In the present study, we used a model of motivation grounded in self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985, 1991; Ryan & Deci, 2000a, 2000b, 2002) to examine the relationship between physical education (PE) students' motivational processes and ratings of their effort and persistence as provided by their PE teacher. Data were obtained from 394 British secondary school students (204 boys, 189 g...

Abstract The great shift of paradigm from teacher-centeredness to learner-centeredness has one major rationale in line with the definitions of autonomy, i.e., the capacity and willingness to act independently and in cooperation with others, so cooperation is looked upon as the manifestation of autonomy. In the present study, the researchers investigated the impact of training cooperative...

The present study attempted to investigate how language teacher educators evaluated two current approaches: monologic or prevalent pedagogy which is widely practiced all across the world including Iran, and dialogic pedagogy which is theoretically established by Yakubinsky, Bakhtin, and Vygotsky. The study tried to understand, whether Iranian EFL teachers and teacher educators preferred to adop...

Should teachers have complete autonomy over teaching methods and practices, or should some aspects of their practice be determined by school government policy? We address this question using repeated (value-added) maths test scores linked to rich survey data from the TALIS video study. With possible exception inexperienced teachers, we generally find no relationship between teacher pupil outcom...

This study aims to examine the association between teacher autonomy and job satisfaction. To this end, employed a relational survey model. The sample of included 368 teachers working in different schools Batman city (Turkey) spring term 2020-2021 academic year. Teachers representing population research were selected through random sampling method. Research data amassed with “Teacher Autonomy Sc...