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Goetz, Thomas; Bieleke, Maik; Yanagida, Takuya; Krannich, Maike; Roos, Anna-Lena; Frenzel, Anne C.; Lipnevich, Anastasiya A.; Pekrun, Reinhard – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
The emotion of boredom has sparked considerable interest in research on teaching and learning, but boredom during tests and exams has not yet been examined. Based on the control-value theory of achievement emotions, we hypothesized that students may experience significant levels of boredom during testing ("test boredom"; Hypothesis 1)…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Attention Control, Academic Achievement, Difficulty Level
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Zu, Tianlong; Hutson, John; Loschky, Lester C.; Rebello, N. Sanjay – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
In a previous study, DeLeeuw and Mayer (2008) found support for the triarchic model of cognitive load (Sweller, Van MerriĆ«nboer, & Paas, 1998, 2019) by showing that three different metrics could be used to independently measure 3 hypothesized types of cognitive load: intrinsic, extraneous, and germane. However, 2 of the 3 metrics that the…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Multimedia Instruction
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Rai, Manpreet K.; Loschky, Lester C.; Harris, Richard Jackson – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
This study investigated how resource-demanding reading tasks and stressful conditions affect 1st-language (L1) and intermediate 2nd-language (L2) reading comprehension. Using the attentional control theory framework (Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos, & Calvo, 2007), we investigated the roles of central executive working memory (WM) resources,…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Reading Comprehension, Comparative Analysis, Native Language