Hints that instruction is suboptimal trigger compensatory self-regulation, but self-management carries cognitive and motivational costs that deplete over time¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Providing hints that instruction contains irrelevant information led learners to compensate through intensified self-regulation such as a selection strategy. → Tina Seufert 2020 q2 i? This self-management incurs cognitive and motivational costs, and motivation to self-control depletes over time, after which learners drop the compensatory strategy. → Tina Seufert 2020 (2)

Evidence¶

Tina Seufert 2020¶

Tina Seufert. (2020). Building Bridges Between Self-Regulation and Cognitive Load—an Invitation for a Broad and Differentiated Attempt. Educational Psychology Review, 32, 1151–1162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09574-6

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The review reports, citing Eitel, Endres, and Renkl, that hints about suboptimal instructional design led learners "to compensate by engaging in intensified self-regulation, in this case in using a selection strategy," showing learners themselves can manage load.

"They could show that by simply providing hints that the design of the instruction is suboptimal, e.g., that it contains irrelevant information, learners were able to compensate by engaging in intensified self-regulation, in this case in using a selection strategy."

Tina Seufert 2020 (2)¶

Tina Seufert. (2020). Building Bridges Between Self-Regulation and Cognitive Load—an Invitation for a Broad and Differentiated Attempt. Educational Psychology Review, 32, 1151–1162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09574-6

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The review reports the authors' point that self-management "does not come without cognitive costs as well as motivational costs" and that motivation to self-control depletes over time, after which learners stop self-managing.

"However, Eitel et al. also point out that this self-management process does not come without cognitive costs as well as motivational costs and that the motivation to self-control depletes over time."

Discussion¶

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