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Scheiter, Katharina; Ackerman, Rakefet; Hoogerheide, Vincent – Educational Psychology Review, 2020
A central factor in research guided by the Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) is the mental effort people invest in performing a task. Mental effort is commonly assessed by asking people to report their effort throughout performing, learning, or problem-solving tasks. Although this measurement is considered reliable and valid in CLT research,…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Difficulty Level, Problem Solving, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Koriat, Asher; Nussinson, Ravit; Ackerman, Rakefet – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
In self-paced learning, when the regulation of study effort is goal driven (e.g., allocated to different items according to their relative importance), judgments of learning (JOLs) increase with study time. When regulation is data driven (e.g., determined by the ease of committing the item to memory), JOLs decrease with study time (Koriat,…
Descriptors: Learning, Evaluative Thinking, Study Habits, Pacing