I’ve Got This: Fostering Topic and Technology-related Emotional Engagement and Queer History Knowledge with a Mobile App

Publication date: Available online 13 July 2019Source: Contemporary Educational PsychologyAuthor(s): Jason M. Harley, Yang Liu, Tony Byunghoon Ahn, Susanne P. Lajoie, Andre Grace, Chayse Haldane, Andrea Whittaker, Brea McLaughlinAbstractLittle research has been conducted to differentiate between multiple, and frequently simultaneously available, discrete object foci in academic achievement situations that emotions can be generated from, including technology and academic topics. Using R. Pekrun’s control-value theory of achievement emotions and M. Sharples and colleagues’ Mobile Learning Theory, we examined whether appraisals of control over technology and task value predicted emotions directed toward using a mobile app (technology-related emotions) and queer history content (topic emotions). In turn, we examined whether technology-related and topic emotions predicted objective and subjective knowledge outcomes. The main results of this study that examined 57 undergraduate students at a Canadian University were the following: (1) Learners reported high mean levels of technological control over the app. (2) Relatively high mean levels of task value. (3) High mean levels of enjoyment and low mean levels of boredom across both technology-related and topic emotions. (4) Learners’ appraisals of task value contributed to multiple regression models that statistically significantly predicted all emotions; appraisals of control over technology contributed to the multiple regressi...

Source: Contemporary Educational Psychology - July 13, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research