Proposition 4: evidence gathered through distinct demands supports capability claims better than multiple records of the same performance¶

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Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r2 · q1
Currency · newest study 2026 · checked against its sources 2026-10-13 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q1 i? The framework proposes that evidence gathered through distinct demands will support later capability claims more effectively than multiple records of the same performance. → William J. Rothwell 2026

Evidence¶

William J. Rothwell 2026¶

William J. Rothwell. (2026). Assessing Learning When AI Can Produce the Product: An Integrated Framework for Cognitive Ownership and Mutual Evaluation. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4503-1957

q1 · i? · theoretical · r2

A theoretical proposition from the validation agenda of this conceptual article, not an empirical finding. The article reasons that an interaction record, a generated reflection, and a polished artifact may share vulnerabilities because they derive from one production episode, while a responsive transfer task samples a different demand.

"Proposition 4 is that evidence gathered through distinct demands will support later capability claims more effectively than multiple records of the same performance."

Studies bearing on this claim¶

Does evidence from methods that make different demands show what a learner can do better than a single method? This table gathers the studies behind this claim and the 9 narrower claims that bear on it: 8 distinct studies (4 theoretical, 2 review, 1 design, 1 qualitative), q1–q2, 0 of 8 with an effect size coded. One row per study, codes as each entry records them; no effect is averaged and no verdict is drawn. Built by scripts/synthesize_claim.py from eval/synthesis/; a row that looks wrong is fixed on the claim it comes from.

Discussion¶

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