9 12 27 Programmes that incorporated humour or 'banter' were found to be an important engaging factor in several studies.
Experiments 1 and 2 were motivated by the hypothesis that the internal generation and representation of feature templates (object files) is the engaging factor in WM performance.
When viewed within the light of evidence for a domain general attentional mechanism (Fink et al., 1997) responsible for control of access to WMC, findings such as this suggest that attention is the primary engaging factor in WM performance (Cowan, 2005).
If integrated attention is the engaging factor driving the shared variance between the observed cuing effects and WMC, then removing the dual aspect of the cuing paradigm and presenting just an orientation cue at fixation to cue upcoming target gratings should produce cuing effects that do not correlate with variation in WMC.
While technologies' engaging factors in improving student motivation have been often researched (e.g., see Lewis et al. 1998; Niss et al. 2007), their interactive features that enable the learner to hypothesize, make predictions, and verify those predictions have not yet been meta-analyzed at the elementary and middle school levels.
With related concerns, (Tomaselli et al., 2015) attempts to analyze the most engaging factors for gamers in the context of gamification by questioning the relevance of some of the most used gamification strategies like attributing points and badges or simple reputation elements to users.
The current review concludes by highlighting the affective outcomes, and the emphasis is given on motivational and engaging factors that lead to emotional development, satisfaction, self-efficacy and self-assessment, findings that are also documented in other reviews (Sitzmann, 2011; Hsu et al., 2012; Tsekleves et al., 2014).
Other engaging factors included the graphics, visual design, and the soundtrack.
Yang appeared in Comcast's list of TV's Most Intriguing Characters, with the website commenting that she is "an engaging yet comedic factor for the prime-time soap Grey's Anatomy".
Hart (1996) reported that students find word problems difficult because they lack motivation; thus, presenting word problems in an engaging format might increase learners' motivation factor and drive them to solve the problems.
