Affective Learning is Effective Learning

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*Every blog post will be about articulating the main points of a research article or chapter to be useful for students and teachers. It will start with a quote, and then summarize an article in one to two paragraphs, ending with the citation. I hope these well-researched tips are useful to you!

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"Affect influences a broad variety of cognitive processes that contribute to learning, such as perception, attention, social judgment, cognitive problem-solving, decision-making, and memory processes." - (Pekrun & Linnenbrink-Garcia, 2012)

Emotions are important in academics because they influence perception, attention, judgment, cognitive problem-solving, decision-making, and memory processes. Positive emotions promote task-related thoughts, and negative emotions promote task-irrelevant thoughts. Thankfully, we do have some control over our emotions our environment, goals, and appraisals can induce, prevent, and modulate emotions. Students and teachers can take advantage of this to enhance learners' emotions. Positive emotions enhance engagement with learning material, which in turn enhances academic performance outcomes.

Pekrun, R., & Linnenbrink-Garcia L. (2012). Academic emotions and student engagement. In S. L., Christenson, A. L., Reschly, & C. Wylie (Eds.), Handbook of research on student engagement (pp. 259-282). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Springer.

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