Cognitive load did not clearly increase during group work under high coercion; a three-way interaction of session time, cognitive load and coercion emerged, with a marginal main effect of coercion¶

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q2 i? A marginally significant main effect of coercion on cognitive load suggested load was highest in the Stringent groups, but load was not elevated during group collaboration itself. → Pieter J. Beers 2007

Evidence¶

Pieter J. Beers 2007¶

Pieter J. Beers, Paul A. Kirschner, Henny P. A. Boshuizen, Wim H. Gijselaers. (2007). ICT-support for grounding in the classroom. Instructional Science 35, 535–556. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-007-9018-5

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Mental-effort self-reports compared between Idiosyncratic and Stringent conditions across measurement points. The article calls this effect only "marginally significant" (P = .06), and in the discussion states that cognitive load measurements do not suggest increased cognitive load during group work.

"Finally, we found a marginally significant main effect of coercion on cognitive load, F(1, 52) = 3.67, P = .06, suggesting that cognitive load was highest in the Stringent groups."

Discussion¶

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