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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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Developmental changes in australian school students' interest for statistical literacy
Colin Carmichael,Ian D. Hay +1 more
TL;DR: Carmichael et al. as discussed by the authors found that younger students are more interested in activities related to chance and the use of computers, whereas older students were more likely to value the ability to interpret statistics in media and scientific contexts.
Student Understanding and Engagement in a Class Employing COMPS Computer Mediated Problem Solving: A First Look
Jung Hee Kim,Michael Glass,Taehee Kim,Kelvin Bryant,Angelica Willis,Ebonie McNeil,Zachery Thomas +6 more
TL;DR: The first use of COMPS in the classroom is reported, supporting an exercise in quantitative problem-solving, and a number of categories of dialogue contribution are identified that will be useful for monitoring and assessing the dialogue and built classifiers for recognizing these contributions.
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Undergraduates’ Motivation Following a Zoo Experience: Status Matters but Structure Does not:
TL;DR: Free-choice learning, which often takes place in settings such as zoos, is where the learner has autonomy to choose what, where, how, and with whom to learn.
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