Differentiating Different Types of Cognitive Load: a Comparison of Different Measures
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A psychological scale or measurement must meet the requirements of reliability and validity to adequately measure a construct such as cognitive load.
“Hereby, a psychological scale or measurement must meet the requirements of reliability and validity to adequately measure a construct such as cognitive load (Korbach et al., 2018).”
From Development and Validation of a Theory-Based Questionnaire to Measure Different Types of Cognitive Load (2023) · cites this paper as Korbach et al., 2018
Further development of objective measures of different types of cognitive load is required.
“As indicated before, this also requires the further development of objective measures of e different types of e cognitive load, such as secondary task performance, eyetracking and pupillometric analysis, as well as physiological data such as heart rate, neuronal activity, or electrodermal activity (Korbach et al., 2017).”
From Bridging Cognitive Load and Self-Regulated Learning Research: A complementary approach to contemporary issues in educational research (2017) · cites this paper as Korbach et al., 2017
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- Authors
- Korbach, A., Brünken, R., & Park, B.
- Affiliations
- Saarland University (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Korbach, Andreas
- Venue
- Educational Psychology Review
- Published
- 2017-03-31
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 503-529
- ISSN
- 1040-726X (ISSN-L)
- 1573-336X
- OpenAlex
- W2598377908
- Cited by
- 153
- References
- 84
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 16.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Educational Psychology Review (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (01PL12057)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
- Keywords
- cognitive load, extraneous cognitive load, germane cognitive load, seductive details, rhythm method, eye tracking, comprehension, transfer performance, cognitive load assessment
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