Significant Accomplishments, New Challenges, and New Perspectives

Abstract

it is much more recently that emotion has claimed its rightful place in mainstream psychology, which has traditionally focused on cognitive processes such as perception, memory, attention, and action. A paucity of research on emotion has also plagued the field of education. Although test anxiety has received substantial attention in educational research (Zeidner, 2007), other critical emotions such as boredom and frustration have been relinquished to the sidelines. Similar to the increased emphasis on emotions in psychology, the last decade has witnessed a refreshing infusion of research that systematically studies emotions during learning, culminating in Pekrun and Schutz’s 2007 edited volume entitled Emotions in Education. But perhaps the most compelling change in the last decade is the infusion of emotion into computer science and engineering.