Effects of Overt Teacher Enthusiasm on First-Grade Students'r Acquisition of Three Concepts

McKinney, C. Warren; Larkins, A. Guy; Burts, Diane C.

doi:10.1080/00933104.1984.10505462

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“…Like us, other authors have found effects from teacher enthusiasm on achievement in samples of primary-age children ( Moè, 2016 ). However, contrary to this argument, McKinney and colleagues, in a wide range of studies with children of different ages ( Larkins and McKinney, 1982 ; McKinney et al, 1984 ; Burts et al, 1985 ) found no differences attributable to age.…”

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Effects of Teacher Enthusiasm and Type of Text on the Motivation and Achievement of Schoolchildren

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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 used four videos showing a teacher presenting two texts (narrative or descriptive) in two conditions of enthusiasm (high or neutral). A MANOVA revealed additive effects due to enthusiasm and text type on motivation and achievement, but no interaction. Mediation analyzes indicated that enthusiasm showed direct and indirect effects through motivation only for descriptive text. Therefore, the motivational mediation between teacher enthusiasm and student achievement could be especially important when the text is descriptive.

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“…Basow and Distenfeld (1985) claimed that although the expressive instructor received the highest student evaluations, students who watched a nonexpressive female instructor had the highest achievement. Besides, McKinney et al (1984) reported that instructors' high level of expressive nonverbal behavior increases classroom management problems in primary school.…”

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Instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior hinders learning when learners’ prior knowledge is low

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This study investigated the influence of instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior and nonexpressive nonverbal behavior in video lectures on students’ learning performance and affective experience. We conducted two rounds of experiments using the same materials and procedures, the only difference being the participants. In each round of experiments, participants were randomly assigned to expressive condition or nonexpressive condition. 227 rural primary school sixth-graders took part in experiment 1, participants in expressive condition had better affective experiences and perceived tasks as less difficult, but had lower learning performance than participants in nonexpressive condition. 175 sixth-graders from urban primary schools participated in experiment 2. The results showed that instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior also improved students’ affective experience and reduced students’ perception of task difficulty, but there was no significant difference in learning performance between the two groups. Comparing the pretest scores of students in the two experiments, it was found that the pretest scores of participants in experiment 2 were higher than those in experiment 1. Overall, instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior can improve students’ affective experience and reduce their perception of task difficulty. However, when students’ prior knowledge is relatively low, instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior hinders students’ learning performance. We suggest that teachers adopt expressive nonverbal behavior when lecturing because it is beneficial to maintain students’ long-term interest in learning. However, it should be noted that the difficulty of learning material should be determined by students’ prior knowledge.

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“…McKinney, Larkins, and Burts (1984) compared the effectiveness of three levels of displayed enthusiasm: low (monotone voice, few gestures), medium (pleasant variations in voice and gestures), and high (very excited style). They found that primary school children's learning performance was best in the medium enthusiasm condition.…”

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Displayed enthusiasm attracts attention and improves recall

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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 teacher enthusiasm are still largely unknown.Aims. We hypothesized that attention paid to the instructor is one mechanism and that the positive effects of enthusiasm will disappear when attention is captured by another task.Samples. In a series of three studies, we involved fourth and fifth graders in listening to texts read aloud with high or low levels of displayed enthusiasm. Methods.In Study 1, we obtained self-reported and observed behavioural indicators of attention while students were read texts with high versus low enthusiasm. In Study 2, we additionally manipulated attention by comparing a group who performed a concurrent attentional task while listening to the texts read with high or low enthusiasm to a group who only listened to the texts. In Study 3, we compared the attention-catching concurrent task used in Study 2 to a non-attention-catching dual task.Results and Conclusions. Our results confirm that displayed enthusiasm captures attention and that attention partially explains the positive effect of displayed enthusiasm on recall.In psychological literature, enthusiasm has been defined either as the result of a pleasant affective state stemming from experiences of enjoyment and interest (e.g., Burić & Moè, 2020;Frenzel, Goetz, Lüdtke, Pekrun, & Sutton, 2009), or as an effective instructional strategy acted out to support student achievement and interest (see Keller, Hoy, Goetz, &Frenzel, 2016 and Rosenshine, 1970 for reviews). Whatever its origin, enthusiasm gives rise to a pattern of expressive behaviours, suggesting energy, interest, and involvement. We refer to this as 'displayed enthusiasm', which is easily perceptible to others (Keller, Becker, Frenzel, & Taxer, 2018).Enthusiasm has been shown to positively influence a range of student outcomes:

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Effects of Overt Teacher Enthusiasm on First-Grade Students'r Acquisition of Three Concepts

Cited by 6 publications

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Effects of Teacher Enthusiasm and Type of Text on the Motivation and Achievement of Schoolchildren

Effects of Teacher Enthusiasm and Type of Text on the Motivation and Achievement of Schoolchildren

Instructors’ expressive nonverbal behavior hinders learning when learners’ prior knowledge is low

Displayed enthusiasm attracts attention and improves recall

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