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The number of attempts to provide students is a key instructional characteristic in computer-based learning (CBL). However, it has not been covered extensively, and there is a need to delve deeper into the factors affecting multiple-try performance and allowing its successful use, including the learner’s involved emotional processes. This study examines the effects of multiple-try on a drill-and-practice mathematical game devoted to primary school students. A total of 73 students from four courses from two schools participated in the experiment. They were randomly assigned to a 3-attempt multiple-try (MTF) and a single-try knowledge of correct response (KCR) conditions. The study covered impacts on learning performance, together with motivation, effort, pressure, and the value of students regarding the learning activity based on the self-determination theory (SDT) perspective and its cognitive evaluation sub-theory (CET). The study’s main findings were that (a) the MTF condition outperformed KCR in terms of students’ learning gains; (b) MTF presented higher levels of perceived competence and autonomy, which, according to SDT, fosters motivation and learning; (c) a cost was yielded in students’ perceived pressure under MTF; and (d) perceived effort and value was similarly high for both conditions despite learning differences. This study complements the existing literature on multiple-try, providing insights into what conditions are beneficial for multiple-try use. Full article

There is a great deal of interest concerning how e-commerce in China can be developed in sustainable ways. Answering this question requires not only the strategic management at the aggregate level, but also developing a micro framework that can effectively understand the cognitive-behavioral pathway of consumers in various online contexts. This paper focuses on the “Double Eleven” Global Online Shopping Carnival (GOSC) in China and attempts to investigate the determinants of consumers’ behaviors of shopping platform usage. The distinguishing feature of this study is that we define GOSC as a unique scenario compared to normal online shopping context, where consumers’ emotional state towards such an event plays a larger role in determining behaviors. Based on Cognitive Emotion Theory (CET), the main findings of this paper suggest that (1) consumers’ behaviors of online platform usage can be affected by both cognitions related factors, including price value, gamification and personalized services, and by emotional state such as having arousal and being pleasured; (2) cognition has an effect on emotional state, such as the positive effect of price value on arousal and pleasure or gamification on arousal. Our study, therefore, has highlighted a number of key points to the sustainable development of GOSC. Limitations and further research directions are also discussed. Full article