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Catarina Vales; Zach Branson; Anna V. Fisher – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Cognitive tasks are seldom evaluated on their ability to provide valid and reliable measurements of the construct they intend to measure. This scarcity of psychometric evaluations makes it challenging to evaluate replications of experimental effects and to relate performance in cognitive tasks to other constructs of interest. In developmental…
Descriptors: Child Development, Psychometrics, Semantics, Preschool Children
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Katrin Schuessler; Vanessa Fischer; Maik Walpuski – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2025
Cognitive load studies are mostly centered on information on perceived cognitive load. Single-item subjective rating scales are the dominant measurement practice to investigate overall cognitive load. Usually, either invested mental effort or perceived task difficulty is used as an overall cognitive load measure. However, the extent to which the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Rating Scales, Construct Validity