FACULTY OF

MATHEMATICS

Contact Person: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Rach

Cooperation with Jan Retelsdorf (Universität Hamburg) and Stanislaw Schukajlow (Universität Münster)

Aims:

• Analysis of situational interest in different learning situations (lectures and solving tasks)
• Support of situational interest in a teacher education program in mathematics

Methods:

• Longitudinal analysis in a course „Linear Algebra“
• Experimental design, using mathematics tasks with and without a link to the teaching profession

Central results:

• Situational interest is strongly predicted by individual interest in mathematics and only weakly related to the specific learning situation.
• Tasks with a link to the teaching profession enhance students‘ utility value but do not affect students‘ effort.

To read further:

Rach, S. (2022). Motivational states in an undergraduate mathematics course: relations between facets of individual interest, task values, basic needs, and effort. ZDM Mathematics Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11858-022-01406-x

Rach, S. (2022). Aufgaben zur Verknüpfung von Schul- und Hochschulmathematik: Haben derartige Aufgaben Auswirkungen auf das Interesse von Lehramtsstudierenden? In V. Isaev, A. Eichler & F. Loose (Hrsg.), Professionsorientierte Fachwissenschaft: Kohärenzstiftende Lerngelegenheiten für das Lehramtsstudium Mathematik (S. 177-189). Springer Spektrum.

Rach, S. (2020). Relations between individual interest, experiences in learning situations and situational interest. In M. Inprasitha, N. Changsri & N. Boonsena (Hrsg.), InterimProceedings of the 44th PME-Conference (S. 466-474). PME.