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Draijer, Jael; Bakker, Arthur; Slot, Esther; Akkerman, Sanne – Frontline Learning Research, 2020
There is increasing attention for interest as a powerful, complex, and integrative construct, ranging in appearance from entirely momentary states of interest to longer-term interest pursuits. Developmental models have shown how these situational interests can develop into individual interests over time. As such, these models have helped to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Interests, Student Interests, Value Judgment
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Wölfer, Ralf; Hewstone, Miles – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Although literature provides strong evidence for the beneficial role of outgroup contact, longitudinal knowledge regarding the formation and change of outgroup contact remains improvable. Using a longitudinal, large-scale data set including 6,726 majority and minority participants (M[subscript age] = 14.98 years at Wave 1; 55% female) from 4…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Adolescents, Predictor Variables
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Bijlsma, Nienke; Schaap, Harmen; de Bruijn, Elly – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2016
Meaning-making and sense-making are generally assumed to be part of students' personal vocational knowledge development, since they contribute to both students' socialisation in a vocation and students' personalisation of concepts, values and beliefs regarding that vocation. However, how students in vocational education acquire meaning and make…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, Academic Achievement, Modeling (Psychology), Observational Learning