Development of a Questionnaire on Subject Interest among Primary School Students

Xuzhe Zhang, Shixiang Liu — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0800

The development of interest can improve the efficiency and quality of students’ learning activities. Previous research mainly explored professional interest, but less on subject interest. This study designed and validated a subject interest questionnaire for primary school students to assess their potential to predict academic performance and offer reference for educational assessment and counseling. A sample of 545 students from two primary schools in Beijing was selected. The questionnaire consisted of 138 questions involving eight major courses, such as Chinese, mathematics and English. Through analysis, questions with good discrimination and social desirability were screened out, and nine questions of each sub-scale were finally retained. According to the result, the reliability and validity of the questionnaire reached an acceptable level. Further analysis of exploratory and confirmatory factors revealed that the subject interest can be summarized into two dimensions: “humanities-related factor” and “mathematics-related factor”. The two dimensions are consistent with the “human and material dimensions” proposed by ACT. As a preliminary exploration, this study lays a foundation for further research on the relationship between subject interest and basic interest and provides a practical evaluation tool for primary education.

Research on Emotional Expression of Students in Different School Stages Based on Speech Emotion Recognition

Qianwen Yuan, Yujie Chen, Wei Wang — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0800

From children to teenagers and then to adults, individuals' emotional expression ability has undergone significant changes. From the compulsory education stage to the general senior middle school stage, students' cognitive and emotional needs will change greatly. Students of different school stages show significant differences in their vocal emotional expression, which not only affects their social skills but also has important guiding significance for educational practice. Therefore, this study focuses on the vocal emotional expression of students at different school stages. This study explores the differences in vocal emotional expression among students at different school stages (primary school, junior high school, and senior high school), with a focus on the expression characteristics of different emotional types and the situation of inconsistent internal and external emotions. The research results show that in terms of emotional types, students at different school stages have a relatively high accuracy rate in expressing sadness, while the accuracy rate for expressing anger is the lowest, and the accuracy rate for expressing anger is significantly lower than that for other emotions. In terms of school stages, the overall accuracy of emotional expression among students improves with the increase of school stages, but the differences between school stages are not significant. In the task of expressing inconsistent internal and external emotions, the study found that senior high school students have significantly better emotional conversion ability than primary and junior high school students, indicating that as the school stage increases, students' adaptability in complex emotional expression tasks gradually improves.

Journal of Psychological Research

Development of a Questionnaire on Subject Interest among Primary School Students

Research on Emotional Expression of Students in Different School Stages Based on Speech Emotion Recognition