Hope and anxiety in physics class: Exploring their motivational antecedents and influence on metacognition and performance

Recent research on achievement in science asserts that motivation, emotion, and metacognition are important driving forces for learning. This study sought to examine the relationships between two physics class emotions (hope and anxiety), their motivational predictors (instrumentality and self-effic...

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Autores: González, Antonio; Fernández, María-Victoria Carrera; Paoloni, Paola Veronica Rita
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Estado:Published version
Data de publicação:2017
País:Argentina
Recursos:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositório:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:Inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/77048
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/77048
Nível de acesso:Acesso aberto
Palavra-chave:Instrumentality
Self-Efficacy
Hope
Anxiety
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Resumo:Recent research on achievement in science asserts that motivation, emotion, and metacognition are important driving forces for learning. This study sought to examine the relationships between two physics class emotions (hope and anxiety), their motivational predictors (instrumentality and self-efficacy), and their effects on metacognitive problem solving strategies (planning, monitoring, and evaluation) and performance. Data were collected from 520 grade 11 Spanish students (54.7% girls). Structural equation models (SEM), followed by a bootstrap procedure, were used to examine direct and mediated relationships. The results supported the model, suggesting that instrumentality and self-efficacy negatively predicted anxiety, and enhanced hope, planning, monitoring, evaluation, and performance; metacognitive strategies and performance were negatively predicted by anxiety, and were positively predicted by hope; metacognitive strategies positively predicted performance. Furthermore, the hypothesized mediated relations were also statistically significant. The interpretation of these findings, their implications for physics teaching and learning, and future lines of research are discussed.