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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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Elementary and Secondary Teachers' Reports of How They Make Learning Interesting
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Newton's Laws beyond the classroom walls
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the contrasting experiences of two students learning Newton's Laws in a seventh-grade general science class and recommend a need to focus on student experience outside the classroom and engagement with content (as opposed to engagement with peripheral things, such as humor or mere activity).
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Predictors and outcomes of situational interest during a science learning task
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined change in students' situational interest as a function of student and task characteristics and found that students working with the more concrete version of the simulation reported an increase in their interest while the opposite was true for students working in the more abstract version.
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Does integrating physical activity in the elementary school classroom influence academic motivation
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Teacher Variables as Predictors of Academic Achievement of Primary School Pupils Mathematics.
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