The relations between urban high school science students’ agentic mindset, agentic engagement, and perceived teacher autonomy support and control

•Agentic mindset, agentic engagement, and teacher practice reciprocally relate.•Agentic engagement predicts increases in agentic mindset.•Perceived autonomy support predicts increases in agentic mindset and engagement.•Agentic mindset predicts decreases in perceived teacher control and vice versa.•Relations vary depending on students’ stereotype vulnerability and GPA.