Test-group students showed high motivation and interest toward the interdisciplinary project in qualitative interviews¶

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q1 i? Interviews throughout the lessons showed test-group students were open-minded, motivated to organize and reflect on their endurance training, and displayed considerably higher interest in the project topic. → Katharina Spintzyk 2016

Evidence¶

Katharina Spintzyk 2016¶

Katharina Spintzyk, Friederike Strehlke, Stephanie Ohlberger, Bernd Gröben, and Claas Wegner. (2016). An Empirical Study Investigating Interdisciplinary Teaching of Biology and Physical Education. Science Educator, Vol. 25, No. 1. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1110252

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Qualitative interviews conducted repeatedly throughout the project to assess students' attitudes; the article reports the test group's openness, motivation and higher interest, and notes the filmed qualitative interviews could not be evaluated quantitatively for financial and time reasons.

"the interviews throughout the lessons have shown that the students of the test group were open-minded about the study and very motivated to organize their endurance training and refl ect upon it."

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