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Desirée Weijers

Researcher at University of Amsterdam

Publications -  5
Citations -  73

Desirée Weijers is an academic researcher from University of Amsterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Self-determination theory & Foster care. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications receiving 37 citations.

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Profiles of teachers’ need-support: How do autonomy support, structure, and involvement cohere and predict motivation and learning outcomes?

TL;DR: This article examined the interplay between the three dimensions of need support: autonomy support, structure, and involvement, and found that high levels of teacher reported structure and involvement could not compensate for a lack of teacher-reported autonomy support.
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Planned and unplanned terminations of foster care placements in the Netherlands: Relationships with characteristics of foster children and foster placements

TL;DR: The results indicate that supporting foster parents in managing problem behavior of the foster child and reducing parenting stress may be a key to an effective prevention of disrupted foster care placements.
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Differentiated need support by teachers: Student‐specific provision of autonomy and structure and relations with student motivation

TL;DR: Findings suggest that teachers differentiate in need support and the positive association between teacher perceptions of structure and students’ controlled motivation might suggest that Teachers may offer structure in controlling rather than autonomy‐supportive ways.

Een praktijkreviewstudie naar het motiveren van leerlingen met verschillende prestatieniveaus en sociale en etnische achtergrond

TL;DR: In this paper, a literatuurreview is gezocht naar internationale en nationale literatoreur with een focus op Nederlands onderzoek, ook onder-zoek dat niet in de internationale peer-reviewed tijdschriften is verschenen.

Het motiveren van leerlingen met verschillende achtergrondkenmerken en prestatieniveaus : Een docententraining in autonomie-ondersteuning en structuurdifferentiatie

TL;DR: In this article, the authors find that docenten kunnen autonomie bieden door aan te sluiten bij de belevingswereld van leerlingen, betekenisvolle keuzes te bideen and dwingende taal (zoals het uitdelen van bevelen of het gebruik van woorden als “moeten”) te vermijden.