A genuine interest in science is an important part of scientific literacy, and thus a critical goal
for science education. Recent studies, however, have found that school science has not …

Science Learning and Instruction describes advances in understanding the nature of
science learning and their implications for the design of science instruction. The authors …

Interest is a complex interplay between affective and cognitive components that drive
motivation. Over decades of work in the educational psychology community, a theoretical …

When people are exposed to information that leads them to overestimate the actual amount
of genetic difference between racial groups, it can augment their racial biases. However …

In order to explore students' interest towards S&T, we developed and validated a
questionnaire that simultaneously takes into account 18 components (general interest in …

Students' engagement with science and the numbers pursuing further study of science
continue to be a concern among policy-makers, particularly in Western countries. Previous …

How is a child's successful participation in science learning shaped by their family's
support? We focus on the critical time period of early adolescents, testing (i) whether the …

Individual interest in school science lessons can be defined as a relatively stable and
enduring personal emotion comprising affective and behavioural reactions to events in the …

A bit more than 10 years after Alsop and Watts pointed out that “Despite the widespread
belief that emotions are a central part of learning and teaching, contemporary work in …

It is known that the relationship between achievement and either interest or utility value is
mediated by engagement. Although utility values are positively related to interest, they are …