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Catch and Hold: Instructional Interventions and Their Differential Impact on Student Interest, Attention, and Autonomous Motivation

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Bolkan, San; Griffin, Darrin J. – Communication Education, 2018

In this study, we investigated how various teaching behaviors influence student interest as a situational variable. Specifically, we studied how behaviors related to "catch" interest (i.e., ephemeral aspects of the learning environment such as instructor humor, nonverbal immediacy, intellectual stimulation) and "hold" interest…

Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Interests, Classroom Environment, Student Empowerment