Promoting students' emotions and achievement – Instructional design and evaluation of the ECOLE-approach
ARTICLE
Michaela Gläser-Zikuda, Stefan Fuß, Matthias Laukenmann, Kerstin Metz, Christoph Randler
Learning and Instruction Volume 15, Number 5, ISSN 0959-4752 Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
Emotions such as interest and anxiety are part of the learning process as well as cognition and motivation. In view of this, educational science should take emotional aspects of instruction into account. The "ECOLE"-approach ("Emotional and Cognitive Aspects of Learning") presented in this paper is a theoretically guided educational approach based on a specific combination of both student-centered and direct instruction. ECOLE aims at improving the quality of instruction by increasing positive emotions and achievement, and by avoiding negative emotions. The results of a quasi-experimental intervention study conducted in 37 8th and 9th grade classrooms in southwestern Germany showed that emotions and above all achievement were enhanced by the ECOLE instruction. Results are discussed in terms of specific teaching strategies that enhance emotions and achievement in teaching units of biology, German, and physics.
Citation
Gläser-Zikuda, M., Fuß, S., Laukenmann, M., Metz, K. & Randler, C. (2005). Promoting students' emotions and achievement – Instructional design and evaluation of the ECOLE-approach. Learning and Instruction, 15(5), 481-495. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved July 6, 2022 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/199786/.
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