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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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The Benefits of Mouse Keeping--An Empirical Study on Students' Flow and Intrinsic Motivation in Biology Lessons.
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The Effects of Seductive Details and Segmentation on Interest, Recall and Transfer in a Multimedia Learning Environment
TL;DR: The results did not provide support for existing literature on seductive details and segmentation effects or reveal that these attributes increase interest, but the implications of the findings present several valuable areas for future research.
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A situated perspective on self-regulated learning from a person-by-context perspective
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Which features make illustrations in multimedia learning interesting
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed ratings of illustrations with respect to four potentially interest-triggering features (concreteness, personal relevance, ease of comprehension and unexpected information) and to situational interest.
Affective engagement: A person-centred approach to understanding the structure of subjective learning experiences.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the structure of students' subjective learning experiences in relation to individual interest profiles and measured two components of affect: activation as positive arousal that indicates engagement, and valence as an evaluative quality of the students' experience.
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