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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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Modeling the interrelations among knowledge, interests, and learning strategies in physical education
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the interrelations among prior knowledge, individual and situational interest, and learning strategies and their interactive impact on learning in physical education and found that learners brought various prior knowledge and skill to the learning process with different individual interest in the content.
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Towards detection of interest using physiological sensors
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive review of physiological studies on interest detection, from different perspectives carried out between 2003 and 2019, was conducted, where a lack of connection between the psychological and physiological studies was identified.
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Boredom in Learning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of interest shown by students in the course in classroom environment and found that boredom is one of the negative emotions that students experience during learning and it can impact their concentration and understanding of the concepts taught in class.
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Gender-dependent Contribution, Code and Creativity in a Virtual Programming Course
Isabella Graßl,Gordon Fraser +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors conducted an online introductory programming course for Scratch, in which they observed the gender-specific characteristics of participants with respect to how they interact, their enjoyment, the code they produce, and the creativity exposed by their programs.
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