Can relaxation exercises improve learning?

Students use both domain-dependent strategies (such as seeking specific domain help) and domain-independent strategies (such as relaxation exercises) to help regulate their affective states when learning. This paper reports a study that compared students’ performance in learning data-structures across two systems. While both systems supported domain-dependent strategies, one additionally supported domain-independent strategies (relaxation exercises). The results provide some evidence that students working with both domain-dependent and domain-independent strategies performed better than those working with domaindependent strategies only. Keywords. Emotions, Affective tutoring system, Domain-independent strategies

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: AIED
• Authors: Mohd Zaliman Yusoff, Benedict du Boulay
• Keywords: AIED 2009, Artificial Intelligence, Domain-dependent Strategies, Domain-independent Strategies, Relaxation Exercises