Educational Psychology / Unit 7 EDP 0619 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Does Interest Cause Learning?
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The idea
Personal interest correlates with achievement, and the causal direction runs at least partly from interest to learning: children learned more from books they chose for themselves.
In practice
A reluctant reader devours a self-chosen book about sharks but stalls on an assigned one.
Where people slip
The arrow runs both ways, since achievement also builds interest.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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