Interest in Mathematics and Science Learning

Ann Renninger · Martina Nieswandt · Suzanne Hidi

Apr 2015 · American Educational Research Association

About this ebook

Interest in Mathematics and Science Learning, edited by K. Ann Renninger, Martin Nieswandt, and Suzanne Hidi, is the first volume to assemble findings on the role of interest in mathematics and science learning. As the contributors illuminate across the volume's 22 chapters, interest provides a critical bridge between cognition and affect in learning and development. This volume will be useful to educators, researchers, and policy makers, especially those whose focus is mathematics, science, and technology education.

About the author

K. Ann Renninger is the Eugene M. Lang Research Professor at Swarthmore College, Department of Educational Studies. Her research addresses the role of interest in learning, and conditions both in and out of school that support the development of interest.

Martina Nieswandt is an Associate Professor of Science Education in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focuses on the relationship between motivation, affects and learning associated with K-14 science concepts and various instructional contexts utilizing mixed-methods approaches.

Suzanne Hidi is a founding fellow of the Senior College of the University of Toronto, Ontario. Her research interests address motivation in general, interest in particular, and neuroscientific research that focuses on the human reward system.