Students’ Emotions in the High School Mathematical Class: Appraisals in Terms of a Structure of Goals

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• 作者：Gustavo Martínez-Sierra…
• 关键词：Appraisal structures ; Emotions in mathematics classroom ; Emotions in mathematics education ; Goals ; Students’ emotions ; Theory of cognitive structure of emotions
• 刊名：International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：15
• 期：2
• 页码：349-369
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Mathematics Education; Science Education;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1774
• 卷排序：15

文摘

Little research in the field of Mathematics Education is directed towards emotions of students beyond their emotions in problem-solving. In particular, the daily emotions of students in a mathematics class have been sparsely studied in the field of mathematics education. In order to fill this gap, this qualitative research aims to identify high school students’ emotional experiences in the mathematics classroom and identify the appraisal structures that support such emotional experiences. Focus group interviews were carried out until theoretical saturation of the data was achieved (N = 53 in nine focus groups interviews). Data analysis is based on the theory of cognitive structure of emotions, which specifies eliciting situations for each emotion and the variables that affect intensity. The emotional experiences in this structure are as follows: satisfaction, disappointment, hope, fear, joy, distress, boredom, interest, pride, reproach, self-reproach, like and dislike. These results show that the emotional experiences of students are based on their appraisals of events, objects and agents in terms of a structure of goals.