Cognitive Load Theory and Its Relationships with Motivation : a Self-Determination Theory Perspective
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Evans, Paul, Vansteenkiste, Maarten, Parker, Philip David, Kingsford-Smith, Andrew and Zhou, Sijing. (2024). Cognitive Load Theory and Its Relationships with Motivation : a Self-Determination Theory Perspective. Educational Psychology Review. 36(7), pp. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09841-2
Authors | Evans, Paul, Vansteenkiste, Maarten, Parker, Philip David, Kingsford-Smith, Andrew and Zhou, Sijing |
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Abstract | Although cognitive load theory research has studied factors associated with motivation, these literatures have primarily been developed in isolation from each other. In this contribution, we aimed to advance both fields by examining the effects of instructional strategies on learners’ experience of cognitive load, motivation, engagement, and achievement. Students (N = 1287) in years 7–10 in four Australian high schools completed survey measures of motivation, engagement, cognitive load, and their teachers’ perceived instructional strategies and motivating style. Results suggest that teachers’ load-reducing instructional strategies were related to lower cognitive load and were positively associated with relative autonomous motivation, engagement, and achievement. Teachers’ motivating styles characterized by autonomy support and structure were also associated with reduced extraneous and intrinsic cognitive load, as well as motivation and engagement. We conclude that by using load-reducing strategies and a motivating style characterized by structure and autonomy support, teachers can reduce students’ cognitive load and improve their self-regulated motivation, engagement, and achievement. In so doing, we discuss a number of future avenues for the joint study of self-determination theory and cognitive load theory, with the aim of refining and extending both perspectives. |
Keywords | Cognitive load theory; Self-determination theory; Motivation; Engagement; Disengagement; Circumplex |
Year | 01 Jan 2024 |
Journal | Educational Psychology Review |
Journal citation | 36 (7), pp. 1-25 |
Publisher | Springer New York LLC |
ISSN | 1040-726X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09841-2 |
Web address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-023-09841-2 |
Open access | Open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 1-25 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 15 Jan 2024 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 18 Dec 2023 |
Deposited | 03 Sep 2024 |
Supplemental file | License File Access Level Open |
Additional information | © The Author(s) 2024 |
his article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long | |
Open Access funding enabled and organized by CAUL and its Member Institutions | |
Place of publication | United States |
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