Emotional and Performance Responses
Research gap analysis derived from 3 education papers in our local library.
The gap
There is a need to investigate how individual differences in baseline mathematics self-efficacy, anxiety profiles, or prior achievement motivations influence emotional and performance responses to gamification techniques among higher education students.
Consensus across the literature
The papers collectively leave open the specific mechanisms underlying emotional and performance responses to various interventions, particularly in relation to individual student characteristics.
Research trend
Emerging — attention growing, methods still coalescing.
Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Gamification to work on the numbers in a mathematics course: Study of emotions and performance in higher education (2026) · doi
While the paper examines gamification in higher education mathematics, there is no analysis of individual differences in responsiveness to gamification—specifically whether students with different baseline mathematics self-efficacy levels, anxiety profiles, or prior achievement motivations show differential emotional and performance responses to escape room activities. Moderation analyses with these student characteristics are missing.
Keywords: gamification escape room individual differences self-efficacy mathematics anxiety heterogeneous effects - Inteligencia emocional sobre los celos y la dependencia emocional en parejas de la selva peruana (2026) · doi
The specific mechanisms explaining why university students score higher on jealousy while those with secondary education show greater emotional dependence need further investigation.
Keywords: specific mechanisms explaining university students score higher jealousy secondary education show greater emotional dependence need - Self-Confidence and Logical Thinking as the Foundation of Academic Public Speaking for Students (2026) · doi
The study is limited to literature from the past ten years and to the context of higher education students in general.
Keywords: limited literature past years context higher education students general
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