Positive Affect Relevant to Epistemic Curiosity to Reflect Continuance Intention to Join a Hands-On Making Contest
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Jon-Chao Hong 1, Ming-Yueh Hwang 1, Elson Szeto 2, Kai-Hsin Tai 1, Chi-Ruei Tsai 1 *
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1 National Taiwan Normal University
2 The Hong Kong Institute of Education
* Corresponding Author

Abstract

Background:
Hands-on making (e.g., “Maker”) has become prevalent in current educational settings. To understand the role that students’ epistemic curiosity plays in hands-on making contests, this study explored its correlation to students’ positive affect and continuance intention to participate in a hands-on making contest called “PowerTech”. To circumvent parent involvement, PowerTech requires students to produce miniatures in the morning and use the miniatures to take part in relay racing and tug-of-war competitions in the afternoon.

Material and methods:
Data from 514 individuals were collected and subjected to confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling by AMOS 20.

Results:
The results revealed that the two types of epistemic curiosity (EC), interest (I-type) and informational deprivation type (D-type), played a mediating role in bonding participants’ positive affect and their continuance intention to join a hands-on making contest.

Conclusions:
The implication of this study suggests that students’ epistemic curiosity can be aroused in the process of participating in competitive hands-on making contests such as PowerTech.

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Article Type: Research Article

https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1276a

EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, 2016 - Volume 12 Issue 9, pp. 2267-2279

Publication date: 29 Jun 2016

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