Today, I read a very interesting AIED 2007 article about emotions during learning. The article title is Getting under the Skin of Learners: Tools for Evaluating Emotional Experience and it is written by Madeline Alsm,eyer, Rose Luckin, and Judith Good.

Some very surprising evaluation results are:

• There is a discrepancy between students recalling an emotion and the emotion estimation by a neutral observer. It suggests that whatever signals the observer receives and interprets, he still might be wrong.
• A typical expectation that students become more confident, feel more pride and less anxiety after a positive interaction with a teacher, is not confirmed.
• One of the positive findings is that certain emotions are not likely to change (boredom, hopelessness) while others change rapidly (relief, anxiety)

I shoudl follow up with that study.