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Academic Emotions and Self-Regulated Learning
Research Guide
What is Academic Emotions and Self-Regulated Learning?
Academic emotions and self-regulated learning examines how discrete emotions like enjoyment, boredom, and anxiety influence strategy use, metacognition, and goal setting in educational contexts guided by control-value theory.
Studies link self-efficacy to motivation and achievement during self-regulated learning processes (Schunk, 1991; 3760 citations). Mathematics anxiety impairs working memory and performance in secondary students (Passolunghi et al., 2016; 696 citations). Structural models show academic self-efficacy, learning-related emotions, and metacognitive strategies predict performance in medical students (Hayat et al., 2020; 508 citations).
Why It Matters
Emotion regulation interventions improve self-directed learning outcomes in dynamic educational settings. Schunk (1991) demonstrates self-efficacy enhances goal attainment and persistence, supporting lifelong learning programs. Passolunghi et al. (2016) link math anxiety to cognitive deficits, informing targeted interventions for student achievement. Blair and Raver (2014) connect early self-regulation to school readiness, impacting policy in early education systems.
Key Research Challenges
Measuring Transient Emotions
Experience sampling methods capture real-time academic emotions during tasks but face compliance issues in classroom settings. Devine et al. (2012; 505 citations) highlight gender differences in math anxiety measurement challenges. Longitudinal designs add burden to participants.
Causal Links to Strategies
Discrete emotions' effects on metacognitive strategies require advanced modeling like structural equation analysis. Hayat et al. (2020; 508 citations) model self-efficacy and emotions' relations to performance but causality remains inferred. Confounding variables like prior achievement complicate isolation.
Individual Differences Impact
Self-efficacy and goal setting vary by developmental stage and domain, as in Schunk (1996; 577 citations) fraction learning studies. Interventions must personalize for gifted or anxious learners. Scaling emotion regulation training across diverse populations poses implementation barriers.
Essential Papers
Self-Efficacy and Academic Motivation
Dale H. Schunk · 1991 · Educational Psychologist · 3.8K citations
Academic motivation is discussed in terms of self-efficacy, an individual's judgments of his or her capabilities to perform given actions. After presenting an overview of self-efficacy theory, I co...
School Readiness and Self-Regulation: A Developmental Psychobiological Approach
Clancy Blair, C. Cybele Raver · 2014 · Annual Review of Psychology · 1.1K citations
Research on the development of self-regulation in young children provides a unifying framework for the study of school readiness. Self-regulation abilities allow for engagement in learning activiti...
Goal Setting and Self-Efficacy During Self-Regulated Learning
Dale H. Schunk · 1990 · Educational Psychologist · 990 citations
This article focuses on the self-regulated learning processes of goal setting and perceived self-efficacy. Students enter learning activities with goals and self-efficacy for goal attainment. As le...
Motivation to learn: an overview of contemporary theories
David A. Cook, Anthony R. Artino · 2016 · Medical Education · 944 citations
Objective To succinctly summarise five contemporary theories about motivation to learn, articulate key intersections and distinctions among these theories, and identify important considerations for...
Mathematics Anxiety, Working Memory, and Mathematics Performance in Secondary-School Children
Maria Chiara Passolunghi, Sara Caviola, Ruggero De Agostini et al. · 2016 · Frontiers in Psychology · 696 citations
Mathematics anxiety (MA) has been defined as "a feeling of tension and anxiety that interferes with the manipulation of numbers and the solving of math problems in a wide variety of ordinary life a...
Goal and Self-Evaluative Influences During Children’s Cognitive Skill Learning
Dale H. Schunk · 1996 · American Educational Research Journal · 577 citations
Two studies investigated how goals and self-evaluation affect motivation and achievement outcomes. In both studies, fourth-grade students received instruction and practice on fractions over session...
Relationships between academic self-efficacy, learning-related emotions, and metacognitive learning strategies with academic performance in medical students: a structural equation model
Ali Asghar Hayat, Karim Shateri, Mitra Amini et al. · 2020 · BMC Medical Education · 508 citations
Reading Guide
Foundational Papers
Start with Schunk (1991; 3760 citations) for self-efficacy theory overview, then Schunk (1990; 990 citations) for goal processes in SRL, and Blair and Raver (2014; 1102 citations) for developmental self-regulation foundations.
Recent Advances
Study Hayat et al. (2020; 508 citations) for emotion-strategy-performance models and Passolunghi et al. (2016; 696 citations) for math anxiety's cognitive impacts.
Core Methods
Control-value theory frames emotion appraisals; structural equation modeling analyzes paths (Hayat et al., 2020); goal manipulation experiments test efficacy (Schunk, 1996).
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Automated Workflows
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Frequently Asked Questions
What defines academic emotions in self-regulated learning?
Academic emotions are discrete states like anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom arising during learning tasks, influencing control-value appraisals and strategy deployment (Hayat et al., 2020).
What are key methods used?
Experience sampling captures real-time emotions; structural equation modeling tests self-efficacy-emotion-performance paths (Hayat et al., 2020); goal-setting experiments assess SRL processes (Schunk, 1990).
What are foundational papers?
Schunk (1991; 3760 citations) on self-efficacy and motivation; Schunk (1990; 990 citations) on goal setting in SRL; Blair and Raver (2014; 1102 citations) on self-regulation development.
What open problems exist?
Causal mechanisms between transient emotions and metacognitive adaptations need experimental validation; personalized interventions for domain-specific anxiety like math remain underdeveloped (Passolunghi et al., 2016).
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