A Study On The Influence Of Emotional Engagement On The Academic Achievements Of Middle And Senior Primary School Students And Its Educational Suggestions

In recent years,as an important predictor of students’ academic achievement,learning engagement has attracted extensive attention of researchers.With the increasingly serious phenomenon of weariness,academia began to pay attention to the relationship between students’ emotional engagement and academic achievement.By combing the relevant literature,it is found that there is still debate in the academic circles about the relationship between emotional engagement and academic performance.In order to explore the specific mechanism of primary school students’ emotional engagement affecting academic performance,this study takes 523 high-level primary school students as the survey object,and uses the method of questionnaire survey and qualitative interview to study the problem.The results show that:（1）the average score of students’ emotional engagement is2.84,which is at the medium level.The average scores of Social and Emotional Skills and learning harvest are higher than 3,which is at the upper middle level;（2）Gender has significant differences in Social and Emotional Skills（except self-awareness dimension）and learning harvest.Girls’ performance is better than boys.There is no significant gender difference in emotional engagement;（3）There are significant grade differences in emotional engagement,Social and Emotional Skills and learning harvest.Social and Emotional Skills（except social consciousness dimension）and learning harvest showed an "inverted U" growth with the increase of students’ grade（5 > 6 > 4）.Emotional engagement decreased gradually with the increase of grade（4 > 5 > 6）;（4）Emotional engagement,Social and Emotional Skills has a significant positive correlation with academic performance and learning harvest.Among them,social affective ability has the largest explanation rate for learning harvest（31%）,followed by emotional engagement（21%）;（5）Social and Emotional Skills can play a regulatory role in the path of emotional engagement affecting academic performance.Educational suggestions:（1）it is necessary for teachers to pay attention to and regularly measure the emotional engagement level of primary school students,timely intervene the individuals whose development is blocked,and integrate the three engagement;（2）Take measures to weaken gender stereotypes and treat students of different genders fairly from three aspects: schools,teachers and parents;（3）Pay attention to the differences between grades and create diversified teaching situations;（4）Stimulate students’ interest in learning and improve students’ academic performance and learning harvest;（5）Set up Social and Emotional Skills courses to enhance students’ emotional regulation ability.