The strongest relationships with student’ future intended interest in science learning was with their current interest in learning school subjects. Student’ interested in school science subjects, therefore, may be critical in predicting their long-term persistence in science learning. This supposition is supported by the arguments of tai, who recommend encouraging student’ interest in learning science in the early stages of compulsory education, because they found in their longitudinal study that the more students were interested and expected of themselves in school science, the more deeply involved they were in engaging in science in the future. Interest very likely serves as an internal driving force to motivate either advanced study for a science degree.