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Record W4414685806 · doi:10.47408/jldhe.vi37.1713

What is lazy metacognition and what can we do about it?

2025· article· en· W4414685806 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Samantha Jane Ahern

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Learning Development in Higher Education · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicInnovative Teaching and Learning Methods
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersUniversity of SurreyUniversity of BathKwantlen Polytechnic UniversityBishop Grosseteste UniversityUniversity of Hull
KeywordsMetacognitionReading (process)CognitionFocus (optics)Key (lock)Foundation (evidence)Digital learningExploit

Abstract

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Large language model (LLM) enabled tools are increasingly omnipresent in our teaching and learning environments. Most of the focus so far has predominantly been on the impacts on assessment and ensuring the security of those assessments. However, there are increasing questions being asked around impacts on learning. Since the 2010s we have been aware of risks to atrophy in the hippocampus due to changes in how we navigate when using GPS devices compared to when we do not (Stromberg, 2015). We are also aware that how we approach reading is different dependent on whether it is digital or in-print, with digital engagement often being quicker and of less depth, with potential impacts on learning (Allcott, 2021). Research by Kaufman and Flanagan (2016) found that students reading digitally did well on answering concrete questions. However, those reading in print did better on abstract questions needing inferential reasoning. A recent paper by Fan et al. (2024 found that ‘AI technologies such as ChatGPT may promote learners’ dependence on technology and potentially trigger “metacognitive laziness”’. How learners engage with these new platforms and capabilities is increasingly important. When students seem increasingly willing to cognitively offload problem solving, what approaches could we take to enable the development the levels of critical engagement required to engage with these tools in a productive manner when many are novices and do not yet have the foundation knowledge and critical literacies to do so? In this interactive workshop you had the opportunity to discuss key issues related to lazy cognition and co-create learning development guidelines for enhancing critical literacies and fostering deep learning. Session outcomes are being collated and will be shared as a community resource. Workshop attendees had the opportunity to be named as co-authors.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.034
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.034

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.034
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.017
Scholarly communication0.0120.017
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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 head0.055
GPT teacher head0.407
Teacher spread0.352 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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