Providing students with choice can be a powerful means of supporting student engagement. However, not all choice opportunities lead to improved student engagement. Teachers can increase the likelihood that students will value choice by analyzing how students associate feelings of autonomy, competence, and relatedness with the choice provided them. To illustrate, the authors present three cases of teachers providing their students with choices and explain the resultant student engagement in terms of these key student feelings.
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