Improving Education Through the Addition of Student Emotion Measurement

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Abstract

The complex and dynamic relationship between students’ learning and affective states is not well understood. As an initial step toward addressing this problem, this paper describes the development of an instrument called an “Affect Map,” designed to provide a quick and relatively unobtrusive way for individuals to give repeated quantitative self-reports of their affective states. Multivariate analyses from a sample of 70 fifth-grade students revealed that the Affect Map was able to reliably transform the linguistic representations of a small set of educationally relevant emotion labels (e.g., “Anxiety”, “Boredom”, “Calmness”, etc.) into a corresponding set of distinct spatial locations on a two dimensional grid. Implications for longitudinal educational research and adaptive instruction interventions are discussed.

Author

• Roger S. Taylor, SUNY - College at Oswego