THE EFFECTS OF AUTONOMY-SUPPORTIVE AND CONTROLLING TEACHING BEHAVIORS ON PRIMARY STUDENTS' STEM LEARNING PERFORMANCE AND FLOW EXPERIENCE

Flow experience plays a major role in influencing students’ interest of STEM, which is the key to promote STEM talent development. Various teaching behaviors contribute differently student learning performance and flow experience. Specifically, this research sought concretely explore different influences Autonomy-supportive (AS) behavior Controlling (C) on The conducted an experimental exploration project among primary school students two groups with (AS C) respectively. T-test ANCOVA analysis revealed that both greatly contributed improvement performance. MANCOVA showed group got slightly significant higher than those Control group. Regarding constructs, had similar level engagement, but enjoyment, stronger control other In words, enhanced While allowed be more enjoyable have learning. Keywords: autonomy-supportive teaching, controlling experience, performance, intrinsic motivation,