These researches implied that motivation affects the behavior of people . The flow theory concluded that there is a state of equilibrium between the amount of challenge in activities and an individual 's capabilities . People feel bored when their perceived skills exceed their opportunities for using them they become anxious when they believe that challenges exceed capabilities . Flow can vary intensity , with the critical variable being the ratio of challenge to skill . The portrayed relations presumably hold for peak as well...

Given this information , it is assumed that the differences between the elementary and high school samples will occur among learning situations . Further analysis indicated that much of the variance in student engagement may be accounted for by classroom factors such as the amount of control , activity , relevance , challenge , and skill students experience during instruction . The current study links phenomenological measures like student engagement and other phenomenological aspects like challenge , relevance , belongingness , and autonomy . Phenomenological measures of student engagement have been...