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  1. 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 ...

  2. May 19, 2020 · To demonstrate that curricular interventions targeting students’ interest are effective, educators need a theoretically based instrument to measure interest. The aim of this study was to develop an instrument measuring undergraduate students’ interest in the discipline of biology and collect initial validity evidence supporting the proposed ...

    • Eva Knekta, Eva Knekta, Ashley A. Rowland, Lisa A. Corwin, Sarah Eddy
    • 2020
  3. Further, we identified studies that measured student interest in biology and characterized the types of measures used. Our findings indicate that biology education researchers typically describe interest as a relationship involving positive feelings between an individual and a physical object, activity, or topic of focus.

  4. interest are effective, educators need a theoretically based instrument to measure interest. The aim of this study was to develop an instrument measuring undergraduate students’ interest in the discipline of biology and collect initial validity evidence supporting the proposed use. The instrument structure is based on Hidi and Renninger’s

    • Eva Knekta, Eva Knekta, Ashley A. Rowland, Lisa A. Corwin, Sarah Eddy
    • 2020
  5. Test of measurement invariance of the interest instrument across biology majors (n = 222) and non-biology majors (n = 489) Results from the final three-factor CFA model.

  6. Aug 9, 2019 · The findings indicate that biology education researchers typically describe interest as a relationship involving positive feelings between an individual and a physical object, activity, or topic of focus, and that interest is often not defined. Understanding how students develop biology interests and the roles interest plays in biology contexts could help instructors and researchers to ...

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  8. Jan 11, 2011 · ArticlePDF Available. Research on Interest in Science: Theories, Methods and Findings. January 2011. International Journal of Science Education 33 (1):27-50. DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2010.518645 ...

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