Knowledge and motivation of a teacher are two unchallenged, essential characteristics for
successful education. Whilst the relevance of teachers' professional knowledge for …

Students' judgments of their own learning are often misled by intuitive yet false ideas about
how people learn. In educational settings, learning experiences that minimize effort and …

Background Instructor enthusiasm has been shown to enhance a range of positive student
outcomes including recall, but the underlying mechanisms for the favourable effects of …

Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are important at most colleges and universities. One
purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which motivational climate was …

Across two studies we investigated the impact of instructor enthusiasm on student attentional
engagement during an online undergraduate lecture, as well as their memory for lecture …

This study aims to analyze the effects of teacher enthusiasm and type of text on student
motivation and achievement. The participants were 369 elementary school students. We …

Video-based teacher training has become an important component of teacher education. A
special form of instructional videos is scripted videos, also known as staged videos. They …

Teachers commonly use injunctive norms when telling students what they should be doing.
But researchers find that sometimes descriptive norms, information about what others are …

Students' judgments of learning (JOLs) are often driven by cues that are not diagnostic of
actual learning. One powerful cue that can mislead JOLs is lecture fluency—the degree to …

Beyond subject matter learning, primary science teaching aims at encouraging positive
attitudes toward, and lasting interest in, science. This study tested whether the learning and …