Supporting Data for "<b>Personal Relevance and Interest Development in the Secondary School Math Class"</b>

The thesis project focuses on "<i>Personal Relevance and Interest Development in the Secondary School Math Class". </i>The current dataset includes the data collected in Study 2, 3 and 4 in the thesis project. Study 2 developed and validated a measure assessing three types of personal relevance with varying degree of personal meaningfulness (<i>personal association, personal usefulness, relevance as identification</i>. The dataset for this study includes students’ three types of personal relevance collected at three time points using the newly-developed questionnaire (434 first-year middle school students). Study 3 investigated the relationships among the three types of personal relevance and students’ interest in middle school math classes. The dataset for Study 3 includes the participants’ self-reported three types of personal relevance, self-efficacy for math class, class interest and teacher-reported math grades (434 first-year middle school students). Study 4 implemented an intervention utilizing generative AI to foster students’ <i>relevance as</i> <i>identification</i> with the knowledge/skills taught in the math class and examined the impact of the intervention on promoting students’ interest in the math class. The dataset for Study 4 includes the participants’ self-reported relevance as identification with math, class interest, self-efficacy for math and teacher-reported math grades (218 high school students).