Volume-based offloading profiles differentiate learners primarily by prior knowledge, and offloading volume is negatively associated with essay authorship¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? In a lab study with 97 university students, k-means volume-based profiles (k=4) significantly differed in prior knowledge and volume of LLM use, and higher offloading volume coincided with lower student essay authorship. → Poquet 2026

Evidence¶

Poquet 2026¶

Poquet, O., Nanduri, M. S., Salinas Loyer, M. X., Stadler, M., Sailer, M., Jovanovic, J. (2026). Profiling Cognitive Offloading in LLM-mediated Synthesis Writing: Volume vs. Content. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10434 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.10434

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Exploratory k-means clustering of 97 university students' prompt counts plus prior knowledge test scores yielded four profiles (High Prior Knowledge-Minimal Offloading n=51; High Prior Knowledge-Moderate n=17; Low Prior Knowledge-Low n=22; Heavy Offloading n=7). The clusters "significantly differed both in prior knowledge" and volume of LLM use.

"The clusters significantly differed both in prior knowledge of the learners whose offloading processes they represented, as well as their volume of LLM use."

Poquet 2026 (2)¶

Poquet, O., Nanduri, M. S., Salinas Loyer, M. X., Stadler, M., Sailer, M., Jovanovic, J. (2026). Profiling Cognitive Offloading in LLM-mediated Synthesis Writing: Volume vs. Content. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10434. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.10434

q2 · i? · associational · r1

In the same volume-based clustering analysis, essay authorship differed significantly across profiles (Table 3: 80%, 81%, 30%, 2%). The article reports that "The more LLM was used, the lower was student authorship score", indicating fewer instances of own knowledge construction.

"The volume of offloading related to the essay authorship. The more LLM was used, the lower was student authorship score."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Prior Knowledge — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• Connective density in student-written essay segments was negatively correlated with prior knowledge and not with number of prompts — related
• Content-based offloading profiles (k=5) reveal qualitatively distinct offloading patterns with significant differences in learning strategies, behavioural markers, and essay authorship — related
• Self-reported cognitive load showed no significant differences across either volume-based or content-based offloading profiles — related
• Volume of offloading masks differences between offloading processes that become visible when profiling what is offloaded — related
• Some content-based offloading profiles differed in prompting volume even though volume was not a clustering variable, suggesting what is offloaded constrains how much is offloaded — related
• A moderate negative correlation exists between cognitive offloading tendency and critical thinking while the constructs remain empirically distinct — related
• Learners using a GenAI system issued prompts that offloaded tasks that may have been important for them to perform themselves, such as differentiating concepts and deciding what to learn — related