You are teaching a topic that you believe is important for your students to understand, but the students are not initially interested in it. Of the following, which is most effective for increasing your students' situational interest in the topic?
a. Offer your students a series of rewards for studying the topic.
b. Explain that the topic is very important for their development, and encourage them to take the topic seriously.
c. Put the students in groups, and have the groups each identify two reasons why studying the topic might be important.
d. Model your interest in the topic by explaining why the topic is so interesting and important to you.
Question 2
Research indicates that three of the following can increase situational interest in students. Which of the following is not likely to increase situational interest?
a. Building lessons around real-world tasks
b. Reinforcing students for performing well in quizzes
c. Personalizing the topics the students are studying
d. Using concrete examples to illustrate the topics the students are studying
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