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Fluoridation In Victoria: The Authority Of Science, Public Health Policy, And Culture, Jacob Pearce
Fluoridation In Victoria: The Authority Of Science, Public Health Policy, And Culture, Jacob Pearce
Dr Jacob Pearce
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Student Engagement With Science In Early Adolescence : The Contribution Of Enjoyment To Students' Continuing Interest In Learning About Science, John Ainley, Mary Ainley
Student Engagement With Science In Early Adolescence : The Contribution Of Enjoyment To Students' Continuing Interest In Learning About Science, John Ainley, Mary Ainley
Dr John Ainley
Recent research has expanded understanding of the contribution of emotions to student engagement and achievement. Achievement emotions can be conceptualized as general ways of responding to achievement settings or specific emotional states aroused during a specific learning activity. Emotion processes can be distinguished as positive or negative, activating or deactivating. Using data from an international survey of science achievement (PISA 2006; N > 400,000 15-year-old students from 57 countries), relations between the positive, activating achievement emotion of enjoyment and a number of variables that combine with enjoyment to define students’ engagement with learning science are examined. Previously, we reported that enjoyment …