“…Interest is acknowledged as an important affective variable in the learning process, because it can affect students' attention, goals, and levels of learning (see Hidi & Renninger, 2006, for a summary). Furthermore, it is closely connected to strategy use (Schiefele & Schreyer, 1994), self-regulation (Pintrich, 1999), performance goals (Harackiewicz, Durik, Barron, Linnenbrink-Garcia, & Tauer, 2008) and achievement in mathematics (Fisher, Dobbs-Oates, Doctoroff, & Arnold, 2012;Köller, Baumert, & Schnabel, 2001;Schiefele, Krapp, & Schreyer, 1993). According to the selfdetermination theory of human motivation and the person-object theory of interest, it emerges from an individual's interaction with the environment and therefore represents a specific person-object relationship (Hidi & Renninger, 2006;Krapp, 2005).…”