Teachers' load-reducing strategies correlate with lower cognitive load and higher motivation, engagement, and achievement, and their motivating styles with lower load and higher motivation and engagement (Evans et al., 2024)¶
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Currency · newest study 2025 · checked against its sources 2026-10-22 (automated, 2 of 2 entries) · not reviewed by a person
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q2 i? An editorial reports that, in Evans et al.'s (2024) survey, teachers' use of load-reducing strategies correlated with lower cognitive load and higher autonomous motivation, engagement, and achievement among high-school students. → de Bruin 2025
q2 i? An editorial reports that, in Evans et al.'s (2024) survey, teachers' motivating styles emphasizing autonomy support and structure were linked to reduced cognitive load and increased motivation and engagement; the editorial states no achievement result for motivating styles. → de Bruin 2025 (2)
Evidence¶
de Bruin 2025¶
de Bruin, A. B. H., Janssen, E. M., Waldeyer, J., & Stebner, F. (2025). Cognitive Load and Challenges in Self-regulation: An Introduction and Reflection on the Topical Collection. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-025-10042-2
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Survey study by Evans et al. (2024) of 1287 students in Australian high schools, summarized in this editorial. "Teachers’ use of load-reducing strategies cor - related with lower cognitive load and higher autonomous motivation, engagement, and achievement." No effect sizes are printed in the editorial.
"Surveying 1287 students in Austral- ian high schools, the study found that teachers’ use of load-reducing strategies cor - related with lower cognitive load and higher autonomous motivation, engagement, and achievement."
de Bruin 2025 (2)¶
de Bruin, A. B. H., Janssen, E. M., Waldeyer, J., & Stebner, F. (2025). Cognitive Load and Challenges in Self-regulation: An Introduction and Reflection on the Topical Collection. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-025-10042-2
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Same survey study of 1287 Australian high-school students by Evans et al. (2024), summarized in this editorial, which reports the link between motivating styles (autonomy support and structure) and reduced load with increased motivation and engagement. The editorial mentions achievement only for load-reducing strategies and states no achievement result for motivating styles. No effect size is printed.
"Additionally, teachers’ motivating styles, emphasizing autonomy support and structure, were linked to reduced cognitive load and increased motivation and engagement."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Motivation — outcome: instruction changes it
- Working Memory — outcome: instruction changes it
Related Claims¶
- Promoting autonomous motivation was linked to higher motivation, lower experienced cognitive load, and higher achievement, but causality cannot be interpreted — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Autonomous motivation types positively relate to school achievement while controlled types show weak negative or null relations — related
- Autonomous regulation correlates positively with self-efficacy, learning strategies, and behavioral engagement, while controlled regulation shows no significant linear relations with these outcomes — related
- Autonomous and controlled motivation correlate positively and strongly across countries (r = .544), and each relates positively to mathematics achievement (r = .248 and r = .080) — related
- Autonomous and intrinsic forms of motivation are positively associated with time management, while controlled motivation and amotivation show negative or null associations — related
- Extraneous cognitive load is negatively associated with autonomous motivation and positively with disengagement, while intrinsic load is negatively associated with motivation, engagement, and achievement — related
- Teachers' load-reducing instructional strategies predict lower extraneous and intrinsic cognitive load and have direct positive associations with motivation and engagement — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Teachers' motivating styles of autonomy support and structure correlate with lower extraneous cognitive load, while chaos and domineering control correlate with higher extraneous load, in a sinusoidal circumplex pattern — related
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Teachers' load-reducing strategies correlate with lower cognitive load and higher motivation, engagement, and achievement, and their motivating styles with lower load and higher motivation and engagement (Evans et al., 2024) |
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Teachers' load-reducing strategies correlate with lower cognitive load and higher motivation, engagement, and achievement, and their motivating styles with lower load and higher motivation and engagement (Evans et al., 2024) |
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