Evaluation of a Process by which Individual Interest Supports Learning within a Formal Middle School Classroom Context.

ABSTRACT: The affective domain and its impact on science achievement has been studied with increasing attention over the past decade. However, there has been little empirical work on how individual interest, and facilitation of situational interest in the classroom, facilitates learning of concepts within fine-grained units of instruction. Drawing upon previous theoretical and empirical work, we test the hypothesis that individual interest facilitates situational interest, and that this in turn facilitates content learning, with respect to a 10-day health education intervention focused on teaching middle school students about light, color and vision. We found that individual interest in science facilitates situational interest in the classroom activities and the teacher's instruction, and that situa

SUBMITTER: Romine W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8386765 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature