In the treatment condition, both epistemic curiosity and situational interest increased after problem presentation and decreased after the explanatory text¶
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q3 i3 For treatment-group students lacking prior knowledge, both epistemic curiosity (η2 = .163) and situational interest (η2 = .117) rose significantly after the Mpemba problem and fell after the explanatory text was studied. → Henk G. Schmidt & Jerome I. Rotgans 2021
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Henk G. Schmidt & Jerome I. Rotgans 2021¶
Henk G. Schmidt & Jerome I. Rotgans. (2021). Epistemic Curiosity and Situational Interest: Distant Cousins or Identical Twins?. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09539-9
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Repeated-measures ANOVAs in the treatment condition (n = 74) of the 148-student experiment. Both measures showed significant time effects ("η2 = .163" for curiosity; "η2 = .117" for interest), with measurement 3 significantly higher than all others.
"For the treatment condition there was a significant effect of time for both epistemic curiosity and situational interest, respectively: Wilk ’s Λ =. 8 4 ,F(3, 71) = 4.61, p =. 0 0 5 ,η2 = .163, and Wilk ’s Λ =. 8 8 ,F(3, 71) = 3.13, p =. 0 3 1 ,η2 = .117."
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In the treatment condition, both epistemic curiosity and situational interest increased after problem presentation and decreased after the explanatory text |
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In the treatment condition, both epistemic curiosity and situational interest increased after problem presentation and decreased after the explanatory text |
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