Factors Affecting Junior High School Students' Interest in Physics

By R. Trumper. 2006

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Social Psychology

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Choosing science: understanding the declines in senior high school science enrolments (2010, background): “Other countries reporting declines in participation and interest in science include New Zealand (Hipkins & Bolstad, 2005), Canada (Bordt et al, 2001; Kennepohl, 2009); Israel (Trumper, 2006), Japan (Ogura, 2005) and Ireland (Jordan, 2009).”
Girls’ biology, boys’ physics: evidence from free‐choice science learning settings (2008, background): “…Joyce 1999; Jones et al. 2000), England (Osborne and Collins 2001; Spall et al. 2003; Murphy and Whitelegg 2006), Israel (Friedler and Tamir 1990; Trumper 2006), Germany (Hoffmann 2002) and in international studies such as ‘Science and Scientists’ (SAS) (Sjøberg 2000) and ‘The Relevance of…”
Teaching Future Teachers Basic Astronomy Concepts--Seasonal Changes--at a Time of Reform in Science Education. (2006, background): “Trumper (2006) found that the three most interesting physics topics for junior high school boys and girls were ‘‘How it feels to be weightless in space,’’ ‘‘How meteors, comets, or asteroids may cause disasters on earth,’’ and ‘‘Black holes, supernovas, and other spectacular objects in outer…”
What Makes Biology Learning Difficult and Effective: Students' Views. (2012, background): “Regarding making connections between the topic and students’ daily lives, Trumper (2006) stated that a better fit between the curriculum and students' interests could lead to better Çimer 69 cognitive and affective outcomes as well as increased enrollment in the sciences.”
Vocational Anticipatory Socialization (VAS): A Communicative Model of Adolescents’ Interests in STEM (2011, background): “Teachers and internship opportunities can be important in academic- and career-interest formulation (Adya & Kaiser, 2005; Moore, 1986; Trumper, 2006).”
Children's Motivation toward Science across Contexts, Manner of Interaction, and Topic. (2014, background): “By the time children are out of middle school, larger preferences can be found across a range of scientific areas (ByBee & McCrae, 2011; Trumper, 2006a, 2006b).”