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Record W1964005434 · doi:10.1177/1541931213571102

Focused Learning

2013· article· en· W1964005434 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicVisual and Cognitive Learning Processes
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsCourseworkMathematics educationCognitive loadWorkloadComputer scienceTest (biology)Point (geometry)CognitionLearning theoryAffect (linguistics)PsychologyMathematics

Abstract

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Increasingly, students learn to use computer-based tools to support their coursework in science, engineering, technology, and mathematics (STEM) courses. A common educational strategy is to introduce the new tool along with new course material, having students learn the tool and the course material simultaneously. We looked at how two simultaneous learning goals affect students’ learning of a computer algebra system (CAS), a tool increasingly used in STEM education. The study described involved teaching a group of students some basic CAS commands through one of two sets of instructional materials that used different contextual examples, based on either familiar or unfamiliar mathematics, which theoretically, based on predictions of cognitive load theory, imposed different levels of cognitive load. The students’ learning of the CAS concepts was tested and their workload during learning and testing was measured. We showed that the students in the familiar math case performed better on a test of CAS concepts and that they reported a lower workload when completing the test. This result was consistent with the predictions of cognitive load theory. The results of this study point to the potential importance of managing the cognitive load of instructional material when training students in the use of advanced educational software systems.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.077
Threshold uncertainty score0.549

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.269
Teacher spread0.247 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it