The Role of Interest in Motivation and Learning

By Pei-qi Li. 2018

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Interest is exhibited by all people for different reasons, in different situations and in varying degrees. It is not correct to say that students at school are not interested. However, they do, not always have interest for what the school curriculum offers. Research indicates that interest is a significant factor influencing the motivation of students and consequently their learning.

Subfields: Information Systems

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1. Patricia A. Alexander
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Citations in the corpus

• Cognitive Affective Engagement Model of Multiple Source Use (2017, background): “Both individual and situational interest have been found to effect learning from text (Hidi, 1990; Schiefele, 2001), reflected in a variety of text-based outcome measures, including text recall and retention, comprehension, and inferencing.”