Is Individual Interest a Cause or an Outcome of Motor Skill Learning? Two Experimental Studies

• In Event: Student and Teacher Motivation and Attitude in Physical Education

Abstract

This study examined the causal relationship between individual interest and motor skill acquisition using one randomized, controlled crossover experiment and two quasi-experiments. The results showed that motor skill learning led to the increase of individual interest, while higher individual interest did not lead to more motor skill learning. These findings indicate that individual interest tends to be an outcome, not the cause, of motor skill learning. This supports the proposition of Rotgans and Schmidt’s (2017) epidemic model of interest in education. That is, individual interest is not a cause but a consequence of learning.

Authors

• Yubing Wang, Old Dominion University
  Presenting Author

• Yaogang Han, Shanghai University of Sport
  Non-Presenting Author

• Pan Li, Shanghai University of Sport
  Non-Presenting Author

• Binn Zhang, Shanghai University of Sport
  Non-Presenting Author