{"id":338983,"date":"2016-12-15T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=893492c464335f51be57058e1ad6e322"},"modified":"2016-12-15T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T00:00:00","slug":"understanding-first-year-students-curiosity-and-interest-about-physics-lessons-learned-from-thehope-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=338983","title":{"rendered":"Understanding first-year students\u2019 curiosity and interest about physics\u2014lessons learned from the\r\nHOPE project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This paper focuses on results of an interview based survey of first-year university physics<br \/>\nstudents, carried out within the EU Horizons in Physics Education (HOPE) project (<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/hopenetwork.eu\/ [http:\/\/hopenetwork.eu\/] ). 94 interviews conducted in 13 universities have<br \/>\nbeen analyzed to investigate the factors that inspire young people to study physics. In particular,<br \/>\nthe main motivational factor, which was proven to consist of personal interest and curiosity, was<br \/>\nunfolded into different categories and detailed interest profiles were produced. The results are<br \/>\narguably useful to help academic curriculum developers and teaching personnel in physics departments<br \/>\nto provide guidance to students in developing and focusing their interest towards specific<br \/>\nsub-fields and\/or to design targeted recruitment and outreach initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This paper focuses on results of an interview based survey of first-year university physics<br \/>\nstudents, carried out within the EU Horizons in Physics Education (HOPE) project (<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/hopenetwork.eu\/ [http:\/\/hopenetwork.eu\/] ). 94 interviews conducted &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-338983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}