Self-to-prototype matching as a strategy for making academic choices. Why high school students do not like math and science
Self-to-prototype matching as a strategy for making academic choices. Why high school students do not like math and science
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DOI：
10.1016/j.learninstruc.2003.10.002
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发表时间：
2004-02-01
影响因子：
6.2
通讯作者：
Kessels, U
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作者：
Hannover, B;Kessels, U
专攻数学和科学的学生比例特别低。目前的研究表明，这是由于数学和科学的原型与学生拥有或想要拥有的自我原型高度不同。超越以往的研究自我原型匹配，我们假设学生比较他们的自我观点，一个典型的学生喜欢某个主题（最喜欢的主题原型）和一个典型的学生不赞成它（最不喜欢的主题原型）。结果表明，对于人文学科（德语和英语），最喜欢的主题原型比最不喜欢的主题原型更积极的判断，而对于科学（数学和物理），最不喜欢的主题原型被认为是更积极的比最喜欢的主题原型。正如预期的那样，只有当一个学生的自我原型是相当清晰的（高自我清晰度），它被用来作为一个标准，学校学科原型进行比较，就其重叠程度。研究结果表明，自我与最爱主体原型的匹配越好，主体偏好越强。(C)2003 Elsevier Ltd.保留所有权利。
The percentage of school students specializing in math and science is particularly low. The current research suggests that this is due to prototypes about math and science being highly dissimilar from self-prototypes students have or want to have of themselves. Going beyond previous studies on self-to-prototype matching, we assumed that students compare their self-views to both a prototypical student liking a certain subject (favourite-subject-prototype) and a prototypical student disapproving of it (least liked subject-prototype). Results show that for humanities (German and English language), favourite-subject-prototypes were judged more positively than least-liked-subject-prototypes, whereas for science (math and physics), least-liked-subject-prototypes were perceived as more positive than favourite-subject-prototypes. As expected, only if a student's self-prototype was quite clear (high self-clarity) was it used as a standard against which school-subject prototypes were compared with respect to their degree of overlap. Our results showed that the better the match between self and favourite-subject-prototype, the stronger were the subject preferences. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.