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Captivating the Class: Predictors of Science Teacher Positivity toward Lessons with Science Communal Affordances

Fuesting, Melissa A
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9356-6868
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1477415612156516

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2016, Master of Arts, Miami University, Psychology.
Beliefs that science fulfills communal goals (i.e., communal affordances) foster student science motivation; integrating science communal affordances into science teachers’ lessons is thus a promising avenue for increasing student science motivation. The current work sought to understand science teacher views of lessons with communal affordances, and investigated whether communal affordances in lessons 1) foster teacher lesson positivity and 2) are perceived to impede valued teaching goals. Across 2 studies, preservice science teachers exhibited more positivity toward lessons if they perceived the lesson to include communal affordances. Compared to lessons that omitted communal affordances, lessons that included communal affordances were viewed as affording more student engagement goals (Study 2). Preservice teachers preferred to teach lessons that they viewed as fulfilling more valued engagement teaching goals. Leveraging teacher perceptions that communal affordances engage science students may be a promising route to integrating communal affordances into science curriculum and thus increasing student science motivation.
Amanda Diekman (Advisor)
Jonathan Kunstman (Committee Member)
Amy Summerville (Committee Member)
33 p.
Social Psychology
goals; motivation; STEM

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  • Fuesting, M. A. (2016). Captivating the Class: Predictors of Science Teacher Positivity toward Lessons with Science Communal Affordances [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1477415612156516

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Fuesting, Melissa. Captivating the Class: Predictors of Science Teacher Positivity toward Lessons with Science Communal Affordances. 2016. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1477415612156516.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Fuesting, Melissa. "Captivating the Class: Predictors of Science Teacher Positivity toward Lessons with Science Communal Affordances." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1477415612156516

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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