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What Makes Lessons Interesting? The Role of Situational and Individual Factors in Three School Subjects.
- Source :
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Journal of Educational Psychology . May2008, Vol. 100 Issue 2, p460-472. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- The present study investigated intraindividual variation in students' interest experience in 3 school subjects and the predictive power of perceived autonomy support and control. Participants were 261 students in 7th grade. After a survey of students' individual interests and other individual characteristics, repeated lesson-specific measures of students' interest experience and perceived autonomy support and control during instruction were obtained over a 3-week period. Hierarchical linear modeling showed 36%-45% of the variance to be located at the within-student level. Moreover, perceived autonomy support and control during lessons, as well as individual interest, predicted students' interest experience in the classroom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00220663
- Volume :
- 100
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Educational Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 60658669
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-0663.100.2.460