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Interest, learning, and the psychological processes that mediate their relationship.
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Although influences of interest on learning are well documented, mediating processes have not been clarified. The authors investigated how individual and situational interest factors contribute to topic interest and text learning. Traditional self-report measures were combined with novel interactive computerized methods of recording cognitive and affective reactions to science and popular culture texts, monitoring their development in real time. Australian and Canadian students read 4 expository texts. Both individual interest variables and specific text titles influenced topic interest. Examination of processes predictive of text learning indicated that topic interest was related to affective response, affect to persistence, and persistence to learning. Combining self-rating scales with dynamic measures of student activities provided new insight into how interest influences learning. It has been widely noted in the literature that after decades of neglect, the concept of interest has been revived by investigators
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- Authors
- Ainley, M., Hidi, S., & Berndorff, D.
- ORCID
- Ainley, Mary
- Venue
- Journal of Educational Psychology
- Published
- 2002-09
- Volume
- 94
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 545-561
- ISSN
- 1939-2176
- 0022-0663
- Cited by
- 790
- References
- 8
- Language
- en
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