Supporting interest of middle school students in mathematics through context personalization and example choice

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue , 2015, Pages 17-25

  Høgheim, Sigve ^a   Reber, Rolf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Choice; Interest; Mathematics; Personalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928104688     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2015.03.006     Document Type: Article

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