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Here, we analyzed education research articles that discuss student interest in biology. We aimed to determine 1) whether and how interest was defined in order to form an understanding of what interest means to the biology education research community, 2) whether interest research in biology education drew from theories of interest or motivation in order to identify the theories that have ...
- Ashley A. Rowland, Eva Knekta, Sarah L. Eddy, Lisa A Corwin
- 10.1187/cbe.19-02-0037
- 2019
- CBE Life Sci Educ. 2019 Fall; 18(3): ar34.
- Descriptive Statistics
- Exploratory Factor Analysis
- Confirmatory Factor Analysis
- Measurements Invariance
- Differences Between Biology Majors and Non-Biology Majors
For the total sample (n = 444), the 33 items had between 1 and 19 missing values per item (0.002–4% missing values). Multiple imputation using logistic regression was used to estimate missing values (implemented with the MICE package, van Buuren & Groothuis-Oudshoorn, 2011). The first of five sets of imputed datasets was used for the results report...
Results from the scree plot and the parallel analysis were analyzed to determine the number of factors to retain. Parallel analysis based on all items indicated that between 2 and 4 factors could be relevant to retain. The scree plot leveled out at 4 factors indicating that no more than 4 factors should be retained. Consequently, EFA analyses with ...
In order to confirm the factor structure suggested by the EFAs, two CFA models were specified. First, a two-factor CFA model was tested with items F1, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, V1, V2, V3, V8, and V9 representing a combined feelings and value interest factor and items R3, R4, R5, R6, R8, R9, R11, R12, and R13 representing reengagement factor. The second ...
Results from the stepwise investigation of measurement invariance are presented in Table 5. The configural model had good fit, indicating that the three-factor structure was invariant over biology majors and non-biology majors. Evaluation of the metric model, where the factor loadings were constrained to be equal in the two groups, supported metric...
Analysis of the latent means differences between biology and non-biology majors showed that biology majors scored significantly higher on all interest subscales (Table 6). Density plots based on mean scale scores also showed differences in the each subscale between biology majors and non-biology majors (Fig. 2). Biology majors consistently had a mo...
- Eva Knekta, Eva Knekta, Ashley A. Rowland, Lisa A. Corwin, Sarah Eddy
- 2020
Despite this goal, evidence suggests that biology education faces a unique challenge in building students' interest in biology content (Rowland et al., 2019), and the method of teaching is one of ...
Aug 9, 2019 · Understanding how students develop biology interests and the roles interest plays in biology contexts could help instructors and researchers to increase science, technology, engineering, and mathematics students’ motivation and persistence. However, it is currently unclear how interest has been defined or measured in the biology education research literature. We analyzed this body of ...
- Ashley A. Rowland, Eva Knekta, Sarah L. Eddy, Lisa A Corwin
- 2019
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differences in individual interest in biology between biology majors and non-biology majors were assessed to evaluate evidence of external validity. Theoretical framework When measuring a psychological construct, an essen-tial prerequisite is to present a definition and theoret-ical basis of the construct in order to clearly convey its intended ...
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Yet, interest is a complex construct and can mean different things to different people, and many of the existing interest questionnaires do not identify a specific theoretical framework underlying ...
