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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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Situational Interest in Engineering Design Activities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate task-based situational interest of sixth grade students during an eight-week engineering design program in a Science & Technology-class and reveal four main sources of interest: designing inventions, trial-and-error experimentation, achieved functionality of invention, and collaboration.
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Using digital photography and journaling in evaluation of field-based environmental education programs
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how situational interest was triggered among participants in an environmental education day camp and tested two participant-driven tools for exploring interest within this setting: digital photography and journaling.
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How Readability and Topic Incidence Relate to Performance on Mathematics Story Problems in Computer-Based Curricula
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Interest Assessment and the Content Area Literacy Environment: Challenges for Research and Practice
TL;DR: This paper explored the assessment of interest in content area literacy environments and highlighted five issues that emerge in the effort to assess interest in text-based interest in the context of content area classroom.
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Developing Critical Curiosity in Adolescents
Shelby Clark,Scott Seider +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative study analyzed semi-structured interviews with 60 adolescents attending five Northeastern urban charter high schools with mission statements focused on fostering students' engagement in social action.
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