Engagement-probe ratings as a pragmatic single-item operationalization of momentary attentional engagement

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Description

The article frames its single-item probe ("How difficult was it to pay attention during the last minute of the lecture?") as a temporally localized reference signal targeting perceived difficulty sustaining attention, explicitly not equivalent to engagement as a whole. The authors write that they use it "as a narrower, engagement-related attentional experience rather than as engagement itself or its direct inverse", recognizing that a learner may remain engaged with demanding material while finding attention hard to sustain.

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• Engagement-probe ratings as a pragmatic single-item operationalization of the attentional aspect of momentary engagement: The article frames its single-item probe ("How difficult was it to pay attention during the last minute of the lecture?") as a temporally localized reference signal targeting perceived difficulty sustaining attention, explicitly not equivalent to engagement as a whole. The authors write that they use it "as a narrower, engagement-related attentional experience rather than as engagement itself or its direct inverse", recognizing that a learner may remain engaged with demanding material while finding attention hard to sustain. (Zikang Leng et al. (2026))

Claims

• Videos experienced as higher attention difficulty were associated with lower normalized quiz learning gains, providing convergent evidence that the probe captures an educationally meaningful aspect of momentary engagement [+W]

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Key Sources

• Zikang Leng, Edan Eyal, Yingtian Shi, Jiaman He, Yaqi Liu, and Thomas Plötz. (2026). EduGage: A Multimodal Dataset and Benchmark for Sensor-Based Momentary Assessment of Engagement in Self-Guided Video Learning. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Ubiquitous Technol. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01238

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title	Engagement-probe ratings as a pragmatic single-item operationalization of momentary attentional engagement
description	The article frames its single-item probe ("How difficult was it to pay attention during the last minute of the lecture?") as a temporally localized reference signal targeting perceived difficulty sustaining attention, explicitly not equivalent to engagement as a whole.
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