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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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Students’ Experiences of Autonomy, Competence, Social Relatedness and Interest Within a CSCL Environment in Vocational Education: The Case of Commerce and Business Administration
TL;DR: In this paper, a field study was conducted within the context of a Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) project fostering self-regulated learning, where students and teachers made use of an electronic instrument that assessed and visualised students' experiences of the quality of group learning over time.
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Development of a game-design workshop to promote young girls' interest towards computing through identity exploration
TL;DR: The findings suggest that the workshop resulted in improvements in both young girls' attitudes towards CS as well as in their self-reported confidence and competence with computers.
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The relationship of interest to internal and external motivation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between student interest and motivation and found that interest is significantly related to intrinsic, but not extrinsic, motivation, while motivation is not related to interest.
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Interest Development and Its Relation to Curiosity: Needed Neuroscientific Research
Suzanne Hidi,K. Ann Renninger +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the relation between interest and curiosity is discussed, and the scientific importance of making a distinction between the two concepts is discussed as well as how earlier and later phases of developing interest are related to curiosity.
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Homo Curious: Curious or Interested?
Dajung Diane Shin,Sung-il Kim +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that humans have evolved to be deeply curious to adapt to a world of uncertainty and that curiosity can be likened to an appetite for knowledge which can be satiated by specific information that fills a knowledge gap.
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