Students used GPT dialogue to manage perceived conceptual complexity, with simplification the most evident cognitive load management strategy, though cognitive load was not measured directly¶
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q2 i? Simplification was the most evident strategy in reflective journals, followed by analogy, incremental reasoning, chunking and visualisation. → Jason Zagami 2026
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Jason Zagami 2026¶
Jason Zagami. (2026). Generative AI as a cognitive partner: personalised GPTs and differentiated learning in undergraduate teacher education. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-026-10746-4
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Frequency analysis of strategies coded from student reflective journals, shown in Figure 3; journals contained reports such as step-by-step flowchart explanation and analogies linking computational thinking to architectural planning.
"Figure 3 illustrates the distribution of cognitive load management strategies evident in student reflective journals, highlighting that simplification was most evident, followed by analogy, incremental reasoning, chunking and visualisation."
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Related Claims¶
- Lower-experience students used GPTs as conceptual tutors while technically stronger students used them as professional collaborators, consistent with adaptive scaffolding — related
- The general and coder models deploy distinct lexical strategies when raising cognitive demand, and neither deploys simplification vocabulary downward — related
- AI raises the ceiling on problem complexity by reducing access complexity rather than cognitive demand — related
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Students used GPT dialogue to manage perceived conceptual complexity, with simplification the most evident cognitive load management strategy, though cognitive load was not measured directly |
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Students used GPT dialogue to manage perceived conceptual complexity, with simplification the most evident cognitive load management strategy, though cognitive load was not measured directly |
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