New Educational Research Technologies in the Global World

AbstractThis paper provides a review of major elements of stress and coping with a specific focus on physiological influences of stress on learners in educational settings. A general overview of stress and coping, including General Adaptation Syndrome and its different stages, good and bad stress (eustress and distress) will be discussed. In addition, the importance and application of new technologies, in educational research, to measure physiological changes during stress will be reviewed. To measure physiological major bodily changes during stress (e.g. anxiety) in educational settings, different instruments such as EEG (electroencephalography), ECG (electro cardio- graphy), EOG (electro-oculography), GSR (Galvanic Skin Response), and tachistoscope are introduced for conducting educational research and assessing stress in teaching and learning environments. These technologies provide information about involved systems of the brain, heart, eye, skin, visual perception and attention, respectively. The importance of the paper is that educational researchers can combine their educational research methodologies (qualitative, quantitative and mixed) with application of these technologies to get a better understanding of the impacts of stress on physiological bodily changes of learners in educational contexts