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Situational interest: Its multifaceted structure in the secondary school mathematics classroom.
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In this paper, the tenability of a hypothetical construct of interest as it applies to the secondary mathematics classroom was proposed and empirically assessed, and the results indicate that it is useful to distinguish between personal and situational interest.Abstract:
The present study attempted to tackle a hurdle that continues to plague the research on interest: the lack of an adequate theoretical model. In particular, the tenability of a hypothetical construct of interest as it applies to the secondary mathematics classroom was proposed and empirically assessed. Building on previous theoretical work, the study used qualitative and quantitative methodologies to first develop a model and then assess its construct validity. The results indicate that it is useful to distinguish between personal and situational interest. Furthermore, the results indicate that the structure of situational interest is multifaceted, clarifying 5 subfacets of situational interest in the high school mathematics classroomread more
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Gender Inequality in Biology Classes in China and Its Effects on Students' Short-Term Outcomes
Ning Liu,Birgit J. Neuhaus +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated gender inequality in biology lessons and analyzed the effects of the observed inequality on students' short-term knowledge achievement, situational interest and students' evaluation of teaching (SET) and found that in the urban classrooms the boys had a significantly higher rate of participation than did the girls, and hence also a higher situational interest.
The Attitudes, Level of Interest, and Knowledge Held by Physicians and Psychologists Toward Integrated Healthcare Practices and the Patient-Centered Medical Home Model
TL;DR: Providers who had previous experience working in an integrated healthcare environment held more positive attitudes toward, more interest in, and more knowledge about integrated healthcare practices and PCMH model than those who had no prior experience.
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The role of school in adolescents’ interest in daily life
TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that adolescents referred to school in their interest experiences in three ways, reporting interest in school, interest at school, and interest after school; however, adolescents differed in the extent to which their interests experiences reflected these ways.
Interesse an Physik - in Salzburg
TL;DR: In this paper, a pilotstudie wurden an sieben Gymnasien in Salzburg (Osterreich) 199 Schulerinnen und Schuler (n♀=83, n♂=116; vorwiegend 9. and 10. Schulstufe) befragt and folgende Bereiche erho-ben: Interesse an Physik, Interessse an Tatigkeiten im Physikunterricht, Facherbeliebtheit, Formeln im
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