Cognitive-Affective Characteristics of Smokers With and Without PTSD and Panic Psychopathology

<p class="0abstract">Twenty-first century learners are media-centric and heavily reliant on technology. Internet-accessible resources are always at the students’ finger-tips and they learn through such resources anywhere, anytime. Unfortunately, formal education in most part of Asia remains largely examination focused given the immense pressure to obtain paper qualifications. Our challenge today is how do we make students learn on their own volition? How do we then sustain learning when the education system is still very much examination-centric? Success in learning is not always dependent on the ways students are taught in the classroom or the tools they use to learn but can be very much affected by the learners’ affective characteristics. This paper highlights two selected affective characteristics — attitudes and interest, as previous and current literature continue to suggest their positive impact on student behavior including learning.</p>

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Affective field during collaborative problem posing and problem solving: a case study

Educational Studies in Mathematics ◽

10.1007/s10649-020-09973-0 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 105 (3) ◽

pp. 303-324 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Maike Schindler ◽

Arthur Bakker

Keyword(s):

Problem Solving ◽

Problem Posing ◽

Dynamic Nature ◽

School Students ◽

Affective Characteristics ◽

Affective Factors ◽

Collaborative Problem ◽

Upper Secondary ◽

Motivation Beliefs

AbstractEducators in mathematics have long been concerned about students’ motivation, anxiety, and other affective characteristics. Typically, research into affect focuses on one theoretical construct (e.g., emotion, motivation, beliefs, or interest). However, we introduce the term affective field to account for a person’s various affective factors (emotions, attitudes, etc.) in their intraplay. In a case study, we use data from an extracurricular, inquiry-oriented collaborative problem posing and problem solving (PP&PS) program, which took place as a 1-year project with four upper secondary school students in Sweden (aged 16–18). We investigated the affective field of one student, Anna, in its social and dynamic nature. The question addressed in this context is: In what ways does an affective field of a student engaging in PP&PS evolve, and what may be explanations for this evolvement? Anna’s affective field was dynamic over the course of the program. Her initial anxiety during the PP&PS program was rooted in her prior affective field about mathematics activities, but group collaboration, the feeling of safety and appreciation, together with an increased interest in within-solution PP and openness for trying new things went hand in hand with positive dynamics in her affective field.

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