A study of primary school pupils’ motivation, emotional intelligence and attentional control ability

Abstract

It’s up to students themselves whether to engage in learning or not no matter in what kind of learning model. Blended learning has higher requirements on effectively selecting and processsing information, due to the application of multiple media and methods. While Multitasking capacity and information handling capacity of human brain is limited. Three important mechanisms–attention, emotion and motivation – contribute to the prioritization and selection of information. Therefore, how to improve attention, positive emotion and motivation is of vital importance. Attentional control ability decides attention level and emotional intelligence decides emotional state. This study investigated the attentional control ability level, motivation level and emotional intelligence of 1860 primary school pupils in China and relationship among them. The result found that: there’s significant differences among different groups in motivation, emotional intelligence and attentional control ability and significant relationship was found among them. This research facilitates us to have a deeper understanding of factors that influence students’ cognition process and help to provide better learning experience in blended learning.