How Do Expectancies and Values Affect Interest Development?

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This interactive panel is designed as a forum for considering present understanding about the development of interest and its relation to expectancies and values. Panelists will draw on two of their empirical studies to (a) overview their research questions and key findings, (b) provide definitions and explanations of how they have conceptualized developing interest and motivational variables in these studies; (c) point to the links between their own work and that of the other panelists, (d) consider the implications of findings to date for theorizing developing interest and other motivational variables, and considering their application to practice, and (e) identify open questions. The panel moderator will facilitate discussion of the open questions by the panelists and the audience.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Motivation in Education

Chair

• K. Ann Renninger, Swarthmore College

Papers

• Interest Development, Value, and Self-Relatedness - K. Ann Renninger, Swarthmore College; Suzanne E. Hidi, University of Toronto

• Conscientiousness, Interest, and Competence Beliefs: Structure, Development, and Association With Academic Outcomes - Ulrich Trautwein, University of Tubingen

• Moving to More Situated Ways of Linking Motivational Beliefs and Sustained Interests - Jacquelynne S. Eccles, University of California - Irvine; Allan L. Wigfield, University of Maryland - College Park

• The Importance of Interest in the Biomedical Pipeline: An Expectancy-Value Approach to Intervention - Judith Harackiewicz, University of Wisconsin; Cameron Hecht, The University of Texas at Austin; Emily Q. Rosenzweig, University of Georgia

Discussant

• Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia, Michigan State University