تلخیص
Interaction between teachers and students carries immense significance inside
classrooms as it contributes to students’ learning. The present study aims to
explore perceived teaching style (autonomous-supportive and/or controlling)
and its correlation with students’ engagement, curiosity and exploration in crosssectional sample of school and university students (N= 402). Three questionnaires
were used: Perceived Parental Autonomy Support Scale P-PASS (Mageau, et al.,
2015); Student Engagement Instrument (Appleton, Christenson, Kim, & Reschly,
2006); and Curiosity and Exploration Inventory (Kashdan, et al., 2009). The
results showed that students simultaneously perceived both teaching styles, that
is, Autonomous-supportive and Controlling. However, a significant difference was
observed between the score of school students where they found their teachers to
be more supportive (t (402)=3.942) and controlling (t (402)=4.774) as compared
to university students. Furthermore, there was moderate correlation between
perceived autonomy support teaching style with students’ engagement (r=.463)
as well as curiosity and exploration (r=.318). The results offer an understanding
of students’ perceptions of teaching style contributing to students’ curiosity and
motivation to engage in classroom.