All roads lead to Rome

Tracking students' affect as they overcome misconceptions

Authors

  • Gregor Kennedy
  • Jason Lodge

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14742/apubs.2016.812

Keywords:

misconceptions, confusion, discovery-based learning, digital learning environments

Abstract

Helping students to overcome misconceptions is a complex problem in digital learning environments in which students need to monitor their own progress and self-regulate their own learning. This is particularly so in flexible, discovery-based environments that have been criticised for the lack of support and structure provided to students. Emerging evidence suggests that discovery-based environments might be ineffective due to students becoming confused, frustrated or bored. In the study reported here, we examined the affective experience of students as they worked to overcome a common misconception in a discovery-based environment. While the results suggest that students experience a range of emotions, they all successfully overcame their initial misconception. Implications for the investigation of student affect in discovery-based environments and the design of these environments are also discussed.

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Published

2016-11-25

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ASCILITE Conference - Full Papers