A Preliminary Study on the Types of Cognitive Load of Textbooks
In the process of textbook learning,the content presented in textbooks impose a certain cognitive load on students'working memory with limited capacity,and this type of cognitive load is an important indicator for evaluating the quality of text-books.This study uses a questionnaire to explore the types of cognitive load of textbooks.Firstly,a textbook cognitive load ques-tionnaire was developed based on the theoretical interpretation of cognitive load.And then administered to fourth-grade students studying math textbooks and eighth-grade students studying physics textbooks.Factor analysis of the test results shows that in the context of textbook learning,without training in the theory of cognitive load,the cognitive load experienced by students when learn-ing from textbooks can be classified into two types:passive cognitive load and active cognitive load.The level of students'meta-cognitive development has a certain impact on the reliability of the cognitive load of textbook measured by the questionnaire meth-od.
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