APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

The Effect of Positive Feedback Provider on Students’ Learning: An Eye-Tracking Study

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Cognitive

  • Fangzheng Zhao
    UCSB Psychological and Brain Sciences
  • Richard Mayer
    University of California, Santa Barbara

Abstract

Students studied an online interactive lesson that included video feedback delivered by an instructor who displayed positive or neutral emotional tone or by onscreen text. Students who received the positive feedback provider had stronger positive emotions, greater social connection with the instructor, and longer fixation times on key information.

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