Are there any studies that explicitly examine methods for cognitive load measurement in real classrooms? I am particularly interested in unobtrusive methods that can capture moment-to-moment variations.
Thank you!
Dear Dr. Malone!
You raised a very important issue to address. During the emerging COVID-19 pandemic e-learning solutions put different cognitive loads on children in classrooms:
1) Skulmowski, A., Xu, K.M. Understanding Cognitive Load in Digital and Online Learning: a New Perspective on Extraneous Cognitive Load. Educ Psychol Rev 34, 171–196 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-021-09624-7 Open access:
Article Understanding Cognitive Load in Digital and Online Learning:...
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3) Du, X., Dai, M., Tang, H. et al. A multimodal analysis of college students’ collaborative problem solving in virtual experimentation activities: a perspective of cognitive load. J Comput High Educ (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12528-022-09311-8, Free access: Article A multimodal analysis of college students’ collaborative pro...
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Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely
Dear Bulcsu Szekely, Thank you for these suggestions! Now that I'm sure more technology has found its way into classrooms due in part to the pandemic, I wonder how these might be used to provide real-time cognitive load measurement during face-to face instruction.
There are various ways:
Subjective, behavioural, psychological approaches to measure cognitive load.
there are some theoretical issues related to the use of cognitive load questionnaires (see also de Jong, 2010). Van Gog and Paas (2008) highlighted different phrasings in cognitive load question items leading to results that may not be comparable. Furthermore, Leppink et al. (2013) suggest to conduct additional research specifically aimed at determining how participants understand cognitive load question items in different contexts. Lastly, Skulmowski et al. (2016) propose to subdivide extraneous load into more fine-grained components in the context of embodiment.
You can refer link and go through classroom scaling
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01191/full#:~:text=One%20method%20of%20cognitive%20load,effort%20during%20a%20learning%20task.
Actually, I am interested in group dynamicism in classroom and its effect in cognitive load.
If you find that is close to your research so please let me know.
Sarah Malone, Its ok Good Question. But work has been done and people are working on it. I am sharing with you. For detail and understanding you can study
1.https://ise.osu.edu/faculty-research/human-systems-integration/cognitive-systems-engineering
2. https://www.jhuapl.edu/content/techdigest/pdf/V26-N04/26-04-Gersh.pdf
3. https://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/schunn/research/papers/multidisc.html
4. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/edm
Dear work is in progress. Actually in computer science we have worked on it
like Machine- Human Interaction, Cognitive Engineering that how to deal with these complex machine and also how to make it better to minimize its side effect on human.
Hi Sarah,
This is a crucial question. I can contribute from my own expertise. The only way we found at the moment, is analysing the word-to-word analysis of particular kritical moments of the educational process. Only the teacher’s action and students’ reaction shows to what extent the load was appropriate.