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Music during Lectures: Will Students Learn Better?
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Dosseville, Fabrice; Laborde, Sylvain; Scelles, Nicolas – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
We investigated the influence of music during learning on the academic performance of undergraduate students, and more particularly the influence of affects induced by music. Altogether 249 students were involved in the study, divided into a control group and an experimental group. Both groups attended the same videotaped lecture, with the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Classical Music, Lecture Method, Classroom Environment
Students' Emotions during Homework: Structures, Self-Concept Antecedents, and Achievement Outcomes
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Goetz, Thomas; Nett, Ulrike E.; Martiny, Sarah E.; Hall, Nathan C.; Pekrun, Reinhard; Dettmers, Swantje; Trautwein, Ulrich – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
In the present study (N = 553; 8th and 11th grade students; 52% female) we investigated students' enjoyment, pride, anxiety, anger, and boredom while completing homework (homework emotions), and contrasted these emotions with those experienced during class (classroom emotions). Both homework emotions and classroom emotions were assessed separately…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homework, Educational Practices, Grade 11
The Best Years of Our Lives? Coping with Stress Predicts School Grades, Life Satisfaction, and Feelings about High School
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MacCann, Carolyn; Lipnevich, Anastasiya A.; Burrus, Jeremy; Roberts, Richard D. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
This study examines whether problem-focused, emotion-focused, and avoidant coping strategies predict key outcomes in a sample of 354 high school students. The four outcomes considered are: academic achievement, life satisfaction, positive feelings towards school, and negative feelings towards school. Results demonstrate that coping incrementally…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Personality Traits, Coping, Stress Management
The Role of Goal Orientations and Goal Structures in Explaining Classroom Social and Affective Characteristics
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Polychroni, Fotini; Hatzichristou, Chryse; Sideridis, Georgios – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
Examining motivational variables may prove to be particularly fruitful towards our understanding of classroom processes, student behaviors and school outcomes. The present study examined the role of personal and contextual goals (goals and goal structures) towards explaining social relationships (peer, teacher-student and home-school). 1493 fifth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Behavior, Student Motivation, Educational Practices