Research on classroom motivational climates and microclimates—students’ shared and idiosyncratic perceptions of motivational classroom features—demonstrates their importance for fostering adaptive motivational and achievement-related outcomes. However, a lack of coherent theoretical guidance about the nature of students’ classroom climate perceptions has yielded numerous conceptualizations and measurement approaches for these processes. Further, although existing theories and conceptualizations vary in the specific motivational climate features they propose, considerable conceptual overlap exists among them. Working toward conceptual clarity, theoretical integration, and guidance for measurement, we performed a systematic review to identify prominent measurement trends in motivational climate research. Results revealed teacher autonomy support and classroom goal structures as the most frequently measured classroom climate qualities. We observed a wide variety of validity evidence for the measures; in particular, a low incidence of studies assessed the factor structure and considered the multilevel nature of climate data, with most treating climate perceptions as student-level phenomena. In addition to providing a much-needed guide of existing measurement practices, this systematic review lays a foundation for the continued theoretical advancement of motivational climate. We call for more rigorous reporting of validity evidence, rationales for measure selection, and the underlying assumptions guiding measure selection when conducting classroom climate research, as well as focused development of instruments targeting less-frequently measured climate constructs.

对课堂激励氛围和微气候的研究——学生对激励课堂特征的共同和独特看法——证明了它们对培养适应性激励和成就相关结果的重要性。然而，由于缺乏关于学生课堂气候感知性质的连贯理论指导，为这些过程产生了许多概念化和测量方法。此外，尽管现有的理论和概念化在它们提出的具体动机气候特征方面有所不同，但它们之间存在相当大的概念重叠。为了概念清晰、理论整合和测量指导，我们进行了一项系统评价，以确定动机氛围研究中突出的测量趋势。结果显示，教师自主性支持和课堂目标结构是最常衡量的课堂氛围质量。我们观察到这些措施的各种有效性证据;特别是，评估因子结构并考虑气候数据的多层次性质的研究发生率较低，大多数研究将气候感知视为学生层面的现象。除了为现有测量实践提供急需的指南外，本系统综述还为动机氛围的持续理论进步奠定了基础。我们呼吁在进行课堂气候研究时更严格地报告有效性证据、措施选择的基本原理以及指导措施选择的基本假设，以及重点开发针对不常测量的气候结构的工具。