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Interestingness—A Neglected Variable in Discourse Processing
Suzanne Hidi,William Baird +1 more
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The notion of “informational significance” as an inclusive term is suggested, and the need for a process-based understanding of interest is underlined.About:
This article is published in Cognitive Science.The article was published on 1986-04-01. It has received 426 citations till now.read more
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Motivational beliefs, values, and goals.
TL;DR: The authors end the chapter with a discussion of how to integrate theories of self-regulation and expectancy-value models of motivation and suggest new directions for future research.
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The Four-Phase Model of Interest Development.
Suzanne Hidi,K. Ann Renninger +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a 4-phase model of interest development, which describes four phases in the development and deepening of learner interest: triggered situational interest, maintained interest, emerging (less developed) individual interest, and well-developed individual interest.
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Motivating the Academically Unmotivated: A Critical Issue for the 21st Century:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the polarization of individual interest, extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, and performance and mastery goals must be reconsidered, and they urge educators and researchers to recognize the potential additional benefits of externally triggered situational interest, intrinsic motivation and performance goals.
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Interest, Learning, and Motivation
TL;DR: In contrast with many contemporary concepts (e.g., intrinsic learning orientation), interest is defined as a content-specific motivational characteristic composed of intrinsic feeling-related and value-related valences as mentioned in this paper.
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Interest and Its Contribution as a Mental Resource for Learning
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that interest is central in determining how we select and persist in processing certain types of information in preference to others, and that the psychological and physiological processes associated with interesting information have unique aspects not present in processing information without such interest.
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Strategies of Discourse Comprehension
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Strategies of discourse comprehension
Teun A. van Dijk,Walter Kintsch +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define a set of rhetorical schemata to be discussed in what follows, and describe them as descriptions, not definitions, and the bus schema contains information that is neither nor-
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Remembrance of things parsed: Story structure and recall☆
Jean M. Mandler,Nancy S. Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of the underlying structure of simple stories is presented and it is claimed that this type of representation of stories is used to form schemata which guide encoding and retrieval.
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Cognitive structures in comprehension and memory of narrative discourse
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of structure and content variables on memory and comprehension of prose passages were studied in two experiments, and a comprehension model was proposed that assumes a hierarchical organizational framework of stories in memory, determined by the grammar, representing the abstract structural components of the plot.