Interest in Mathematics and Science Learning, edited by K. Ann Renninger, Martin Nieswandt, and Suzanne Hidi, is the first volume to assemble findings on the role of interest in mathematics and science learning. As the contributors illuminate across the volume's 22 chapters, interest provides a critical bridge between cognition and affect in learning and development. This volume will be useful to educators, researchers, and policy makers, especially those whose focus is mathematics, science, and technology education.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• List of External Reviewers
• Introduction: On the Power of Interest
• Section 1: Interest and Other Motivational and Demographic Variables
  • Chapter 1: Early Science Learning Experiences: Triggered and Maintained Interest
  • Chapter 2: The Roles of Interest and Self-Efficacy in the Decision to Pursue Mathematics and Science
  • Chapter 3: One Size Fits Some: Instructional Enhancements to Promote Interest
  • Chapter 4: The Effects of Interest and Utility Value on Mathematics Engagement and Achievement
  • Chapter 5: Interest as Emotion, as Affect, and as Schema
  • Chapter 6: Perceptions of Science and Their Role in the Development of Interest
  • Chapter 7: The Relation Between Interest and Self-Regulation in Mathematics and Science
• Section 2: Interest and Subject Matter
  • Chapter 8: Promoting Information Seeking and Questioning in Science
  • Chapter 9: Play as an Aspect of Interest Development in Science
  • Chapter 10: Interest, Self-Efficacy, and Academic Achievement in a Statistics Lesson
  • Chapter 11: Intrinsic Motivation, Self-Efficacy, and Interest in Science
  • Chapter 12: Students’ Pathways of Entry Into STEM
  • Chapter 13: Undergraduate Students’ Interest in Chemistry: The Roles of Task and Choice
  • Chapter 14: Teachers Learning How to Support Student Interest in Mathematics and Science
• Section 3: Interest Development
  • Chapter 15: Emerging Individual Interests Related to Science in Young Children
  • Chapter 16: Sustaining Interest-Based Participation in Science
  • Chapter 17: Interest and the Development of Pathways to Science
  • Chapter 18: Understanding Well-Developed Interests and Activity Commitment
  • Chapter 19: Fostering Students’ Identification With Mathematics and Science
  • Chapter 20: Canalization and Connectedness in the Development of Science Interest
  • Chapter 21: Supporting the Development of Transformative Experience and Interest
• Conclusions: Emerging Issues and Themes in Addressing Interest in Learning Mathematics and Science
• About the Contributors