Situational interest and academic achievement in the active-learning classroom

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 58-67

  Rotgans, Jerome I ^a   Schmidt, Henk G ^b  

^a Republic Polytechnic   (Singapore)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active learning; Interest; Problem based learning; Situational interest

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449256709     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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