Individual interest and learning in secondary school STEM education

Interest research offers different hypotheses about the association between interest and learning outcomes. The standard hypothesis proposes that interest predicts learning outcomes: people acquire new knowledge about a topic they find interesting. The affective by-product hypothesis assumes that l...

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Main Authors: Erkka Laine, Marjaana Veermans, Andreas Gegenfurtner, Koen Veermans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EARLI 2020-04-01
Series:Frontline Learning Research
Online Access:https://journals.sfu.ca/flr/index.php/journal/article/view/461