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ToolsKönings, Karen D., van Zundert, Marjo and van Merriënboer, Jeroen J. G. (2019) Scaffolding peer-assessment skills:Risk of interference with learning domain-specific skills? Learning and Instruction, 60. pp. 85-94. ISSN 0959-4752
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Giving students complex learning tasks combined with peer-assessment tasks can impose a high cognitive load. Scaffolding has proven to reduce cognitive load during learning and improve accuracy on domain-specific tasks. This study investigated whether scaffolding has a similar, positive effect on the learning of peer-assessment tasks. We hypothesised that: (1) domain-specific scaffolding improves domain-specific accuracy and reduces time on task and perceived mental effort, and (2) peer-assessment scaffolding improves peer-assessment accuracy and reduces time on task and perceived mental effort. Additionally, we explored whether there was an interaction between domain-specific and peer-assessment scaffolding. In a 2x2 experiment with the factors domain-specific scaffolding (present, absent) and peer-assessment scaffolding (present, absent), 236 secondary school students assessed the performance of fictitious peers in an electronic learning environment. We found that domain-specific accuracy indeed improved with domain-specific scaffolding, confirming our first hypothesis. Our tests of the second hypothesis, however, revealed surprising results: peer-assessment scaffolding significantly increased accuracy and mental effort during learning, it had no effect on peer-assessment accuracy at the test and led to reduced domain-specific accuracy, even when combined with domain-specific scaffolding. These results suggest that scaffolding students’ peer assessment before they have mastered the task at hand can have disturbing effects on students’ ability to learn from the task.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cognitive load,instruction,peer assessment,scaffolding,task complexity,education,developmental and educational psychology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3304 |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2020 23:53 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2025 18:31 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/76942 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2018.11.007 |
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