How situational is situational interest? Investigating the longitudinal structure of situational interest

Interest development: Arousing situational interest affects the growth trajectory of individual interest

“…A. Alexander, Kulikowich, & Schulze, 1994). One cannot exclude beforehand the possibility that pre-existing individual interest and perhaps other dispositional factors will influence the initial level of situational interest to a certain degree when a person engages with a new task (Ainley, Hidi, & Berndorff, 2002;Ainley, Hillman, & Hidi, 2002;Knogler, Harackiewicz, Gegenfurtner, & Lewalter, 2015;Tapola et al, 2013;Tsai, Kunter, Lüdtke, Trautwein, & Ryan, 2008).…”

Generation of student interest in an inquiry-based mobile learning environment

“…Though there have been examples of interventional and case studies (e.g. Knogler, Harackiewicz, Gegenfurtner & Lewalter, 2015;Renninger et al, 2014;Tapola et al, 2013;) on the relationship between inquiry learning and students' interest development these studies have either concentrated on short-term change in students' situational interest, and/or lacked the ecological validity that would benefit the development of everyday classroom practises. Studying interest development in an ecologically valid setting over an extended time frame would allow the examination of the benefits and possible disadvantages of these types of pedagogical approaches as they unfold in real life classroom situations (e.g., Glynn et al, 2015).…”

Company Based Continuing Vocational Training With Authoring Systems for Tasks in Industrial Manual Assembly

“…An example item for perceived authenticity is "I think that the tasks in this project fit well with the work of real scientists". Situational interest was measured by the 12-item scale from Knogler, Harackiewicz, Gegenfurtner, and Lewalter (2015). An example item for situational interest is "The engagement with the contents of this project was exciting for me".…”