Achievement emotions at school: their importance and measurement via experience sampling

Activities, experiences, and interactions in the school environment can have an immediate effect on students’ performance and their well-being. In this essay, I will discuss the emotions occurring in the school context; the importance of their proper regulation and control; the most novel and prominent way of measuring them; their predictive value; and their effect on students’ performance. Firstly, I will refer to the several types of emotions in an academic environment and further focus on the significance of achievement emotions. Next, I will introduce and explain the control-value theory of achievement emotions, which helps to understand the motivational antecedents of emotions and their predictive value. Finally, I will discuss the more usual method for measuring emotions at school by means of self-reports and the more novel method of experience sampling.