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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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Unlocking the Power of Situational Interest in Physical Education.
TL;DR: The role of interest in learning, advocated by as mentioned in this paper as an integral component of the educational process, has gained renewed attention in physical education (Chen, 2001; Subramaniam, 2009). Understanding how interest develops and the pedagogy that nurtures its growth and development can help teachers become agents of change in curtailing the decline in students' motivation to learn.
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Students interest in Scratch coding in lower secondary mathematics
TL;DR: The results show a slight, but nevertheless significant, negative effect on students?
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Control-value appraisals predicting students’ boredom in accounting classes: a continuous-state-sampling approach
Kristina Kögler,Richard Göllner +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a study with 95 commercial school ninth graders, they investigated control-value appraisals and students' boredom over two curricular weeks in the subject accounting by means of an experience sampling procedure with equally spaced measurement intervals, called Continuous-State-Sampling.
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