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Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning
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Complex learning aims at the integration of knowledge, skills, and attitudes; the coordination of qualitatively different constituent skills; and the transfer of what is learned to daily life or work settings. Recent instructional theories stress authentic learning tasks as the driving force for learning; but due to the complexity of those tasks, learning may be hampered by the limited processing capacity of the human mind. In this article we present a framework for scaffolding practice and just-in-time information presentation, aiming to control cognitive load effectively. We briefly describe a design model for complex learning consistent with cognitive load theory. Theoretical and practical implications of the presented framework are discussed.
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This conceptual article argues that authentic whole-task learning can overwhelm working memory, so instruction should manage cognitive load through scaffolding and timely information. It proposes simple-to-complex task classes, alternative task formats, and just-in-time supportive and procedural information within a four-component design model.
Key findings
- Whole-task sequencing should start with the simplest authentic versions of a task and move through task classes of increasing complexity; simpler classes impose lower intrinsic load and should fall within learners’ proximal development.
- Within a task class, support should fade from worked-out examples to completion, goal-free, or reverse tasks, and finally to conventional problems; these alternatives reduce extraneous load compared with conventional problem solving.
- Supportive information for nonrecurrent aspects should be presented before a task class and elaborated, while procedural information for recurrent aspects should be presented during practice and integrated with the task environment to avoid split attention.
- The 4C/ID model consists of learning tasks, supportive information, procedural information, and part-task practice; part-task practice is reserved for recurrent aspects requiring high automaticity after they have been introduced in whole tasks.
Methods
- Conceptual/theoretical paper, not an empirical study; no sample, data collection, or statistical analysis is reported.
- Synthesizes cognitive load theory and instructional design literature to derive guidelines and a design model for complex learning.
- Uses narrative argument and illustrative examples, such as a literature-search task and a table of task types, rather than original quantitative results.
Limitations
- The authors state the overview is incomplete and note that they are unaware of empirical research relating process-oriented support to cognitive load.
- The authors state the framework focuses on reducing intrinsic and extraneous load as a means to free processing resources, and that explicit methods to increase germane load may be needed; they also note that cognitive load theory alone is insufficient for a full instructional design model.
- Evident from the text: no original empirical test, effect sizes, or new data are presented, so the claims rest on prior studies and conceptual consistency.
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“Indeed, many experiments supported the counterintuitive prediction that studying worked-out examples facilitates schema construction and transfer performance more than actually solving the equivalent problems does (van Gerven, Paas, van Merriënboer, & Schmidt, 2002; also see Sweller et al., 1998, for an overview).”
§ Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning > Types of Learning Tasks
What the sources say
- Supportedcites van Gerven, Paas, van Merriënboer, & Schmidt, 2002 source
Section 4 states that worked examples are more likely than conventional problems to support schema construction and that numerous studies found superior performance and transfer. The Discussion says this paper's own experiment did not find a significant performance advantage, but the cited claim concerns the broader experimental literature the paper reports. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Simultaneously performing the tasks and studying the information would almost certainly cause cognitive overload (Kester et al., 2001;Marcus, Cooper, & Sweller, 1996).”
§ Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning > Supportive Information
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- Partly supportedcites Kester et al., 2001 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Section 2 recommends presenting supportive information before task clusters, and section 2.1 explains that working-memory capacity is limited. These passages support separating study of supportive information from task performance, but they do not say that doing both simultaneously would almost certainly cause cognitive overload. The Discussion (section 6) calls the preferred timing an assumption needing further support. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“The second is called procedural information and is best presented precisely when it is needed during task performance; it pertains to the how-to instructions for the application of rules (Kester, Kirschner, van Merriënboer, & Baumer, 2001).”
§ Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning > JUST-IN-TIME INFORMATION PRESENTATION
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- Supportedcites Kester, Kirschner, van Merriënboer, & Baumer, 2001 source
Section 2.1 states that prerequisite information is best presented during practice, when learners need it. Section 4.2.5 includes procedures for operating the system among that prerequisite information, supporting the citing sentence’s description of procedural how-to information. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“For subsequent task classes, only new (additional) supportive information should be presented-extending the set of interacting elements (Pollock et al., 2002).”
§ Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning > Supportive Information
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- Partly supportedcites Pollock et al., 2002 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The paper describes a progression from isolated elements to learning their interactions in a second phase (Abstract; Results and Discussion). But it says that the second phase presented all the information needed for understanding, not only new or additional information. It does not prescribe this rule for subsequent task classes. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“Such embedded support is clearly more effective than nonintegrated support (i.e., the parent running alongside and shouting”
§ Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning > SCAFFOLDING WHOLE-TASK PRACTICE
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“We conclude that CLT offers useful guidelines for decreasing intrinsic and extraneous cognitive load, so that sufficient processing capacity is left for genuine learning.”
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“Since then, there has been accumulating evidence that both part-task approaches to sequencing and instructional design models driven by separate objectives do not work well for complex performances that require the integration of skills, knowledge, and attitudes and the extensive coordination of constituent skills in new problem situations (see van Merriënboer, 1997, for a complete discussion).”
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“For novice learners, learning and performing conventional tasks are different and incompatible processes.”
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“But Naylor and Briggs (1963) already indicated in the early 1960s that they are not very suitable for learning complex tasks requiring much coordination between their distinct parts or constituent skills.”
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“Each new task class contains learning tasks that are in the zone of proximal development of the learners (Vygotsky, 1934(Vygotsky, /1987)).”
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“Less elements and interactions between elements need to be processed simultaneously in working memory when performing the tasks in simpler task classes; for more complex task classes, the number of elements and interactions between elements increases (cf.Pollock, Chandler, & Sweller, 2002).”
§ Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning > Simple-to-Complex Sequencing
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Pollock, Chandler, & Sweller, 2002 source
The Results and Discussion passage says complex material involves more interacting elements than working memory can process simultaneously unless they are incorporated into a schema. The passage on sources of cognitive load also describes a continuum from few elements with low interactivity to many elements with high interactivity, supporting the simpler-versus-more-complex comparison. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“CLT emphasizes the need to integrate support for novice learners with the task environment fully; otherwise, split-attention effects increase extraneous cognitive load because learners have to integrate information mentally from the task environment with the given support (Chandler & Sweller, 1992;Sweller & Chandler, 1994).”
§ Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning > SCAFFOLDING WHOLE-TASK PRACTICE
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“There is overwhelming evidence that such conventional tasks are exceptionally expensive in terms of working memory capacity.They cause high-extraneous cognitive load due to the use of weak problem-solving methods (e.g., means-ends analysis), which bear little relation to schema construction processes that are concerned with learning to recognize problem states and their associated actions (Sweller”
§ Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning > Types of Learning Tasks
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“For information with a high-intrinsic complexity, it seems advisable to present the information before the learners start on the learning tasks.”
§ Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning > JUST-IN-TIME INFORMATION PRESENTATION
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“Part-task approaches to sequencing are highly effective to prevent cognitive overload because the load associated with a part of the task is lower than the load associated with the whole task.”
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“This necessary information must be active in working memory when performing the task to guide or influence behavior.”
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“Goal-free tasks present the learner with a highly aspecific goal, which eliminates the need for means-ends search and so decreases extraneous cognitive load (Paas, Camp, & Rikers, 2001; also see Sweller et al., 1998, for an overview).”
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“Whole-task approaches attend to the coordination and integration of constituent skills from the very beginning, and they stress that learners quickly develop a holistic vision of the whole task that is gradually embellished during the training.”
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“Recent instructional theories stress authentic learning tasks as the driving force for learning; but due to the complexity of those tasks, learning may be hampered by the limited processing capacity of the human mind.”
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“Recent instructional theories tend to focus on authentic learning tasks that are based on real-life tasks as the driving force for learning (Merrill, 2002;Reigeluth, 1999a;van Merriënboer & Kirschner, 2001).”
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“Fading is also important because the positive effects found for worked-out examples may reverse as learners acquire more expertise: If the necessary schemas for solving a problem are already available, analyzing a redundant worked-out example and integrating it with previously acquired schemas in working memory may impose higher cognitive load than problem solving (see Kalyuga, Ayres, Chandler, &”
§ Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning > Types of Learning Tasks
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“it is critical to prevent split-attention effects when presenting this information.”
§ Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning > Procedural Information
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“The supportive information is presented in a just-in-time fashion to work on the nonrecurrent aspects of learning tasks within the same task class”
§ Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning > A DESIGN MODEL FOR COMPLEX LEARNING
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“The learning tasks within the same task class are equivalent in the sense that they may be performed on the basis of the same general knowledge (i.e., mental models and cognitive strategies that allow one to perform a version of the task with a particular complexity).”
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“The procedural information, in contrast, is presented just in time to perform the consistent, recurrent aspects of the learning tasks”
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“Supportive information may be helpful in performing the nonrecurrent aspects of learning tasks.”
§ Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning > Procedural Information
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“each task class starts with one or more learning tasks with a high level of embedded support (e.g., worked-out examples), continues with learning tasks with a lower level of support (e.g., completion, goal-free, or reverse tasks), and ends with conventional tasks without support.”
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“It preferably takes the form of direct, step-by-step, or how-to instruction and is quickly faded away for subsequent learning tasks.”
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“For each subsequent task class, additional supportive information is presented to enable the learners to perform the more complex version of the whole task.”
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“These learning tasks will typically be performed by the learners in a simulated or real task environment and, ideally, confront them with all constituent skills that make up the whole complex skill.”
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“the cognitive load imposed by instructional designs should be the preeminent consideration when determining design structures.”
§ Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning > DISCUSSION
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“For those aspects, additional part-task practice may be provided-such as children drilling multiplication tables or musicians practicing musical scales.”
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“when learners have enough expertise, procedural information will become redundant and should thus be removed to decrease extraneous cognitive load (Kalyuga et al.,1998).”
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“Elaboration of the procedural information beforehand has no added value whatsoever; therefore, it is preferably presented precisely when learners need it.”
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“The supportive information for each subsequent task class is an addition to or an embellishment of previous information-allowing learners to do things they could not do before.”
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“This process of induction is important for constructing new knowledge and, especially, for adapting existing schemas to make them more appropriate to the given experiences (Holland, Holyoak, Nisbett, & Thagard, 1986).”
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“This four-component instructional design model (referred to hereafter as the 4C/ID model) presupposes that well-designed learning environments for complex learning always consist of four components: (a) learning tasks, (b) supportive information, (c) procedural information, and (d) part-task practice.”
§ Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning > A DESIGN MODEL FOR COMPLEX LEARNING
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“This is repeated for each subsequent task class, yielding a saw-tooth pattern of support throughout the whole training program.”
§ Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning > A DESIGN MODEL FOR COMPLEX LEARNING
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim.
None of the sources cited for this claim could be matched to a paper in Crossref, so there is nothing to check it against.
In the paper
“They are highly domain specific and allow only for the same use of the same knowledge for performing recurrent aspects of tasks.”
§ Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning > Procedural Information
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- Not matchedcites Anderson, 1993
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
- Not matchedcites Anderson, 1996
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- Not matchedcites Newell, 1991
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: unclear — It is unclear whether the paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
It may state two separate claims as one.
- Not matched
The authors state this as an assumption.
Authentic learning tasks help learners integrate knowledge, skills, and attitudes; coordinate constituent skills; and transfer what is learned to daily life or work settings.
“The general assumption is that such tasks help learners to integrate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for effective task performance; give them the opportunity to learn to coordinate constituent skills that make up complex task performance; and eventually enable them to transfer what is learned to their daily life or work settings.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The human mind has limited processing capacity.
“due to the complexity of those tasks, learning may be hampered by the limited processing capacity of the human mind.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Excessive or insufficient support can hamper the learning process.
“Because excessive or insufficient support can hamper the learning process, it is critical to determine the right type and amount of support and to fade at the appropriate time and rate.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Recent instructional theories tend to focus on real-life tasks as the driving force for learning.
“This article started from the observation that recent instructional theories tend to focus on real-life tasks as the driving force for learning.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Limited working memory is the most central aspect of human cognitive architecture.
“limited working memory is no doubt the most central aspect of human cognitive architecture.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Real-life tasks are typically associated with a very high cognitive load.
“Such tasks are typically associated with a very high-cognitive load”
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The cited source says what the claim attributes to it.
In the citing paper
“Certain authors have suggested, for example, that the learner's cognitive load is reduced with the aid of scaffolding and that this thus allows the learner to perform parts of a task that he or she would otherwise not be able to perform”
From Scaffolding in Teacher–Student Interaction: A Decade of Research (2010) · cites this paper as Van Merriënboer et al. 2003
In the citing paper
“For the automation of schemas, compilation and strengthening are the most relevant cognitive processes (Anderson 2000;Van Merriënboer 1997;Van Merriënboer et al. 2003).”
From Interactivity in Video-based Models (2007) · cites this paper as Van Merriënboer et al. 2003
In the citing paper
“To construct adequate schemas two types of cognitive processes are important; elaboration and induction (Van Merriënboer 1997;Van Merriënboer et al. 2003).”
From Interactivity in Video-based Models (2007) · cites this paper as Van Merriënboer et al. 2003
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Metadata
- Authors
- van Merrienboer, J. J. G., Kirschner, P. A., & Kester, L.
- Affiliations
- Open University of the Netherlands (NL)
- ORCID
- Kirschner, Paul A.
- Venue
- Educational Psychologist
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2003-01-01
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5-13
- ISSN
- 0046-1520 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-6985
- OpenAlex
- W2127791224
- Semantic Scholar
- 5672feb8343dabd71bddf54a434d641ca7a5b7b8
- Cited by
- 857
- References
- 89
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- FWCI
- 39.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Educational Psychologist (publishedVersion)
- Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- 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
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Keywords
- complex learning, cognitive load theory, scaffolding, instructional design, authentic learning tasks, transfer of learning, design model
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