Class participation is considered important in higher education in order to enhance the learning ability of students and improve the quality of college education. Drawing on this necessity, the present study identified important factors such as autonomy support, task value, and academic self-efficacy that influence college students’ class participation, and examined their effects. In addition, the study qualitatively explored other factors that facilitate class participation. Results are as follows.
First, college students indicated that the critical factors for class participation were strict evaluation, class through presentation and discussion, effective instructional approaches, utility of subject matters, interesting instruction, strict roll call, use of audio-visual materials, interaction with students, assignment and feedback, and relatedness to job seeking.
Second, all of autonomy support, task value, and academic self-efficacy positively related to the intention for class participation. The results from multiple regression showed that autonomy support had the largest exploratory power followed by task value and academic self-efficacy. Implications from these results were discussed.