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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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Hunter, Jennifer A.; Eastwood, John D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Prior research has proposed that boredom and academic performance are reciprocally causal of one another. The present study sought to better understand the relationship between boredom and academic performance by, for the first time: distinguishing between boredom proneness, state boredom, and judgments of task boringness; conducting experiments…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Academic Achievement, College Students, Psychological Patterns
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Finkielsztein, Mariusz – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2020
Although in recent years, researchers have shown increasing interest in achievement-related emotions, academic boredom included, still the vast majority of the studies that have been carried out on the issue, so far, employed solely or primarily quantitative methods, were largely confined to the field of psychology and were conducted in a limited…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Learner Engagement, College Students, Coping
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Huang, Su-Ying; Yeh, Li-Li – Journal of Educational Research, 2019
The authors investigated the relationships among effortful control and frustration and literacy proficiency of preadolescence to determine which subcomponent of effortful control and/or emotion might be critical in achieving academic success. The participants included 72 children recruited from a larger longitudinal study. Children's frustration,…
Descriptors: Literacy, Psychological Patterns, Attention Control, Grade 1
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González-Barbera, Coral; Chaparro, Alicia A.; Caso-Niebla, Joaquín – International Education Studies, 2019
The aim of the study was to describe student profiles associated with educational achievement from four sets of personal variables: psychological, academic, health, and technology use. A representative sample of middle school students from Baja California, Mexico, was given an ad hoc questionnaire and academic results were obtained from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Profiles, Academic Achievement
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Huang, Yueh-Min; Liu, Ming-Chi; Lai, Chia-Hung; Liu, Chia-Ju – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
Teachers often use in-class questions to examine the level of understanding of their students, while these also enable students to reorganize their acquired knowledge. However, previous studies have shown that students may resist being questioned because of negative emotions. Therefore, this paper proposes the idea of eliciting positive emotions…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Humor, Learning Experience, Questioning Techniques
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Rueda, M. Rosario; Checa, Purificacion; Rothbart, Mary K. – Early Education and Development, 2010
Research Findings: Part of the attention system of the brain is involved in the control of thoughts, emotions, and behavior. As attentional control develops, children are more able to control cognition and responses flexibly and to adjust their behavior in social interactions better. In this article, we discuss evidence from different levels of…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Academic Achievement, Parents, Brain