Exploratory research to determine student cognitive engagement from heart rate, implementing active learning activities, in a subject of the industrial engineering program at the Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito.
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Ladino Nocua, Andrea Catalina | 2021
The COVID-19 emergency forced educational institutions to adopt measures that would allow
them to continue their educative processes in a virtual environment. The various obstacles that
students have had to face have affected their engagement and motivation. Identifying factors
such as student cognitive engagement in distance learning allows make timely decisions that
favor the learning process. In this study, an exploratory investigation was carried out to
identify student cognitive engagement in distance lessons, through heart rate, using heart rate
bands in university students of the industrial engineering program in Colombia. With the data
treatment and the use of a quadrant model, which related a non-self-report method (heart rate)
with a self-report method (questionnaire), we obtained the following results: the heart rate has
a significant variation during an active learning activity, which can be positive or negative, this
indicates that the students experience cognitive engagement; the trend of the heart rate during
a lesson depends on internal factors that are directly related to the active learning activities
developed, and passive learning activities like the projection of a video can cause an increase in
heart rate if students are instructed to do an activity after the video. We expect this study
provide input for future research assessing student cognitive engagement using physiological
characteristics as a tool.
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