Ayşenur Alp Christ

University of Zurich | UZH · Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft

Purpose: Calculus is generally offered as a freshman-year course and is a prerequisite for some advanced STEM-related courses in some undergraduate programs. However, some students experience difficulties in Calculus courses, leading to lower levels of achievement. Thus, there is a need to examine the factors which may be related to students’ achie...

Goal-related messages in a classroom are associated with students' experiences and functioning in learning. However, little is known about need satisfaction as a mediator that translates the classroom messages into students' optimal educational experience. In the present studies, we investigated in a sample of 171 (in Study 1) and 255 (in Study 2)...

As part of the social distancing measures for preventing the spread of COVID-19, many university courses were moved online. There is an assumption that online teaching limits opportunities for fostering interpersonal relationships and students’ satisfaction of the basic need for relatedness – reflected by experiencing meaningful interpersonal conne...

This systematic literature review was conducted in order to further the understanding of how learning processes act as mediators between teaching quality and student achievement. Eighteen quantitative studies were included for analysis. In 24 of 53 mediation paths (45%) learning processes were identified and confirmed as mediators and in 29 mediati...

The Three Basic Dimensions (TBD) model, the leading model of teaching quality in German-speaking countries, theorizes three mediation paths for the effect of teaching quality on student outcomes. However, the existence of these paths and their effects have largely not been empirically tested. This study investigated the mediating role of depth-of-p...

Based on the self‐determination theory, many studies have attempted to uncover the contextual features that satisfy adolescents' basic psychological needs. Most of these, however, have focused on one aspect of the social context, either the school or the family environment, and focused on either the issue of need frustration or need satisfaction an...

Self Determination Theory Perspective

Being a teacher and favoring mastery goals in the classroom & being a student and adopting mastery-approach goals constitute the best way to perceive school-related tasks as a challenge. • Being a teacher and promoting performance goals in the classroom is a less effective strategy as performance goal structures seem to lead to the adoption of perf...