The Power of Interest for Motivation and Engagement describes the benefits of interest for
people of all ages. Using case material as illustrations, the volume explains that interest can …

Students frequently experience various types of motivation and emotion that contribute to
their engagement and learning. However, translating research on motivation and emotion …

Transformative experiences are characterized by application of school content in everyday
experience, expansion of students' perception of the world, and increased value for aspects …

We used the social‐cognitive choice model (Lent et al., 2018) as a framework for
investigating academic and career choice in the domain of geoscience for male and female …

The current study reports on the efficacy of a multi-faceted motivationally designed
undergraduate enrichment summer program for supporting science, technology …

Transformative experience refers to learning episodes in which students use ideas from the
science classroom to see and experience the world differently in their everyday lives. The …

ABSTRACT The Teaching for Transformative Experiences in Science (TTES) model was
designed to facilitate the application of academic learning in students' everyday …

Women are underrepresented in many undergraduate geoscience programs. Some
departments are more successful at recruiting and retaining female students than others. To …

Only 40% of geoscience undergraduate degrees are conferred on women. Little research
has examined why more men tend to pursue and persist in geology degrees compared to …

This chapter focuses on interest as a cognitive and affective motivational variable that
develops and can be supported to develop. It provides an explanation of Hidi and …