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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Affective engagement"”.
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Tracking engagement : a machine learning framework for estimating affective engagement
… used to determine construction workers' engagement during training courses by applying machine learning techniques to video images. This thesis proposes a framework to measure construction workers' engagement during training courses by unobtrusively analyzing engagement through body and …
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Unsupervised discovery and validation of affective engagement states using synchronized EEG and eye-tracking during digital learning
This study explores affective engagement states in digital learning environments using synchronized EEG and eye-tracking data. EEG signals were collected from frontal channels and processed using sliding windows to extract band-power features. Frontal Alpha Asymmetry (FAA; log alpha power …
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Is It Choice or Is It Interest?: The Effect of Choice and Interest on the Cognitive and Affective Engagement of Elementary Students Performing a Reading Task
… interest, and situational interest on reading engagement, attitude, and learning in college-age students. The study was replicated using fourth and fifth graders as subjects. The study was extended to examine the effects of gender and reading ability cohort on the outcome measures. Participants …
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Contributing to Engineering Colleges Students' Development Through Out-of-Class Involvement: A Survey of Chinese Private Colleges' Engineering Students
… Chinese version of the Postsecondary Student Engagement Survey (PosSES 2.1). This study provides the statistical analyses of the survey data completed by 283 senior engineering students on their perceptions about their levels of involvement related to positive/negative outcomes students …
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On the Needs of Human Persons
… love. I define merciful love as the actual affective engagement or the potential affective engagement with another based upon a willingness to offer forgiveness to and/or communion with another person in need, due both to a recognition and embrace of another's personhood and to a recognition …
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Exploring A Complex Model Of Student Engagement In Middle School: Academic Self-Efficacy Beliefs And Achievement
… of research and literature supports that student engagement in school is critical to academic outcomes. Research also finds that students’ beliefs about their ability to be successful at academic tasks will significantly influence their achievement also. The aim of this study is to explore the …
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Everyday aesthetic existence and discipleship: exploring the connections between aesthetics, faith and ethics in being human and becoming Christian
… builds on this by highlighting that embodied and affective engagement with the world both plays a significant role in faith formation and concomitantly frames ethical life by conjoining praxis and poiesis through incarnational living. Aesthetics is not to be disconnected from action, as Nicholas …
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The relationship of alcohol consumption practices to leisure patterns and leisure-related alcohol expectancies
… primary outcomes in relation to leisure: (1) affective engagement, (2) self-acceptance and comfort, (3) disinhibition of behavior, and (4) disengagement from day to day life. Results also suggested that there are differences in leisure related alcohol expectancies between lighter and heavier …
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“Girls Who Kick Butt”: A Cognitive Interpretation of Tamora Pierce’s Adolescent Feminist Fantasy
… be linked to potential readers’ cognitive and affective engagement. The primary texts I have chosen are Tamora Pierce’s two narrative quartets (The Song of the Lioness and Protector of the Small) that deal with characters from the fictional land of Tortall, as they focus closely on female …
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The Role of Mathematics in Engineering Practice and in the Formation of Engineers
… mathematics, factors that contributed to their engagement with school mathematics and the impact of their feelings about mathematics on their choice of engineering careers are investigated. The findings show that (i) engineers’ feelings about mathematics are a major influence on their choice of …
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Friend Me Your Ears: A Musical Approach to Human-Robot Relationships
… Music, however, provides an opportunity for affective engagement, shared creativity, and social activity. This being said, it is unlikely that a robot best equipped to build sustainable and meaningful relationships with humans will be one that can solely play music. In their day-to-day lives, …
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Ways of seeing women's history: an action research study of student responses to a document-based lesson sequence centring black women in a historical narrative
… misrepresentation of women. Several students' affective engagement enhanced their capacity to enact sophisticated criticality and disciplinary learning that exceeded my expectations. By contrast, affect unconsciously partially impeded the learning of others, as their embedded notions absorbed …
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Sentimentality and digital storytelling: towards a post-conflict pedagogy in pre-service teacher education in South Africa
… the background of a continued lack of social engagement across difference in South African classrooms. It set out to explore the potential of a specific pedagogical intervention - digital storytelling - as a post-conflict pedagogy in a diverse pre-service teacher education classroom. Personal …
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Multilingual Future Self-Guides: A Mixed-Methods Study of Learners of Multiple Foreign Languages in China
… were compared in terms of behavioural and affective engagement, intended effort and self-perceived competence. Results point to Multilingual as the best performing group and Unmotivated the worst performing group, with the performance of English Dominant and Obligated being somewhere in …
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Examining Dynamics of Student Disciplinary Engagement in Science
… social (social norms and collaborations), and affective (emotional experiences- the joy of a successful experiment or frustration over a failed one). With science being a multidimensional endeavor, there is a need to view and understand students' disciplinary engagement in science as a …
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AP Statistics Students’ Conceptions of Engagement and Technology in a Flipped Classroom: A Phenomenographical Study
… of this dissertation was to study student engagement and disengagement within an AP Statistics course using flipped classroom strategies. Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development and Scaffolding, Dewey’s Active Learning Theory, the Microsystem of Student Engagement in a Flipped Classroom, …
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Bodies of Parchment: Representing the Passion and Reading Manuscripts in Late Medieval England
… events of Christ's Passion and considers how the affective engagement with Christ's suffering body that pervaded late-medieval devotional practice informed, in turn, the signifying power of a text's materiality. The Christ-as-book metaphor often occurs in works that represent the creation and …