What makes lessons interesting?: The role of situational and individual factors in three school subjects

• Autores: Yi-Miau Tsai, Mareike Kunter, Oliver Lüdtke, Ulrich Trautwein, Richard M. Ryan
• Localización: Journal of educational psychology, ISSN-e 1939-2176, ISSN 0022-0663, Vol. 100, Nº. 2, 2008, págs. 460-472
• Idioma: inglés
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Dialnet Métricas: 10 Citas
• Resumen

  • The present study investigated intraindividual variation in students' interest experience in 3 school subjects and the predictive power of perceived autonomy support and control. Participants were 261 students in 7th grade. After a survey of students' individual interests and other individual characteristics, repeated lesson-specific measures of students' interest experience and perceived autonomy support and control during instruction were obtained over a 3-week period. Hierarchical linear modeling showed 36%-45% of the variance to be located at the within-student level. Moreover, perceived autonomy support and control during lessons, as well as individual interest, predicted students' interest experience in the classroom.