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TARGETing secondary school students’ motivation towards physical education: The role of student-perceived mastery climate teaching strategies

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  • Gwen Weeldenburg
  • Lars Borghouts
  • Tim van de Laak
  • Teun Remmers
  • Menno Slingerland
  • Steven Vos

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The aim of the present study was to explore the impact of TARGET-based teaching strategies on students’ motivation in a Dutch secondary school PE context. We examined to what extent mastery climate teaching strategies perceived by students (independently or interactively) explain variability in students’ motivation towards PE. In total 3,150 students (48.2% girls; 51.8% boys) with a mean age of 13.91 years (SD = 1.40) completed the Behavioural Regulations in Physical Education Questionnaire (BRPEQ), measuring students’ autonomous motivation, controlled motivation and amotivation, and the Mastery Teaching Perception Questionnaire (MTP-Q), measuring student-perceived application of mastery TARGET teaching strategies. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that after controlling for gender, age, and educational type, the predictive effects of the perceived mastery climate teaching strategies differed by motivational outcome. Overall, students who reported higher levels of perceived application of mastery TARGET teaching strategies showed more autonomous motivation and less amotivation. Specifically, the teaching strategies within the task structure were the strongest predictors for students’ autonomous motivation and amotivation. No meaningful statistically significant two-way interaction effects between any of the TARGET variables were found, supporting the proposition of an additive relationship between the TARGET teaching strategies.

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  • Gwen Weeldenburg & Lars Borghouts & Tim van de Laak & Teun Remmers & Menno Slingerland & Steven Vos, 2022. "TARGETing secondary school students’ motivation towards physical education: The role of student-perceived mastery climate teaching strategies," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(9), pages 1-14, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0274964
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274964
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    1. Gwen Weeldenburg & Lars B Borghouts & Menno Slingerland & Steven Vos, 2020. "Similar but different: Profiling secondary school students based on their perceived motivational climate and psychological need-based experiences in physical education," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(2), pages 1-17, February.
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