“…There is a long tradition from the 1960s onward of studying student interest, motivation, attitudes toward science learning, and quality of science teaching (Bennett, Hogarth, & Lubben, ; Hidi, Renninger, & Krapp, ; Osborne et al, ; Sjøberg & Schreiner, ). Research on student interest and motivation has revealed that science in general is interesting to students, but most students, especially girls, do not find school science and technology or careers in these fields interesting (Tytler, Osborne, Williams, Tytler, & Cripps Clark, ; Woolnough, ).…”