Formative assessment and emotional trajectories aiding investigation of flow in higher education

Brezovnik, Simon (author), Lipovec, Alenka (author), Kajzer, Špela (author), Vegi Kalamar, Alen (author), Bokal, Drago (author)

Flow represents a psychologically optimal state characterized by deep engagement, intrinsic motivation, and a balance between perceived challenge and skill. While formative assessment is known to support self-regulated learning through feedback and reflection, its relationship with students' emotional trajectories toward flow in higher education remains insufficiently explored. This study investigates how formative assessment practices are associated with the development of emotional states consistent with progression toward flow in university mathematics courses.

• Language: English
• Keywords: formative assessment, co-assessment, feedback, state of flow, higher education
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: 17 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 11, art. 1814423
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-182425
• UDC: 378.091.26:51
• ISSN on article: 2504-284X
• DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2026.1814423
• COBISS.SI-ID: 277715971
• Publication date in RUL: 11.05.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Frontiers in education
• Shortened title: Front. educ.
• Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
• ISSN: 2504-284X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 526812697

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: formativno ocenjevanje, soocenjevanje, povratne informacije, stanje zanosa, visokošolsko izobraževanje

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: J1-2452
• Name: Strukturni, optimizacijski in algoritmični problemi v geometrijskih in topoloških predstavitvah grafov

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P5-0433
• Name: DIGITALNO PRESTRUKTURIRANJE DEFICITARNIH POKLICEV ZA DRUŽBO 5.0 (INDUSTRIJO 4.0)