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King, Donna – Studies in Science Education, 2012
Context-based chemistry education aims to improve student interest and motivation in chemistry by connecting canonical chemistry concepts with real-world contexts. Implementation of context-based chemistry programmes began 20 years ago in an attempt to make the learning of chemistry meaningful for students. This paper reviews such programmes…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Problem Based Learning, Learning Motivation, Chemistry
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Roth, Guy; Assor, Avi; Kanat-Maymon, Yaniv; Kaplan, Haya – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
This study examined teachers' experience of autonomous motivation for teaching and its correlates in teachers and students. It was hypothesized that teachers would perceive various motivations posited by E. L. Deci and R. M. Ryan's (2000) self-determination theory as falling along a continuum of autonomous motivation for teaching. Autonomous…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Teacher Motivation, Teaching (Occupation), Correlation
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Bereby-Meyer, Yoella; Kaplan, Avi – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2005
Two experiments investigated the effect of achievement goals on the transfer of a problem-solving strategy in 7- and 11-year-old children. In the first experiment, motivational priming took place before the learning of the strategy, affecting the learning as well as the transfer of the strategy. In the second experiment, motivational priming took…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Experiments, Achievement Need, Educational Psychology