Interest, Learning, and the Psychological Processes That Mediate Their Relationship

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...

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Published in:Journal of educational psychology 2002-09, Vol.94 (3), p.545-561
Main Authors: Ainley, Mary, Hidi, Suzanne, Berndorff, Dagmar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affective behaviour
Affective measures
Biological and medical sciences
Cognitive Processes
Educational psychology
Emotional Responses
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Influences
Interests
Learning
Measures (Individuals)
Middle School Students
Persistence
Psychological Patterns
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Pupil and student. Academic achievement and failure
Readability
Reader response
Reader text relationship
Reading
Reading Comprehension
Relationship
Secondary education
Secondary school students
Student characteristics
Student Interests
Students
Teachers
Teaching
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0022-0663
1939-2176
DOI:10.1037/0022-0663.94.3.545