Short vs. long: cognitive load, retention and changing class structures

Brandon Sheridan, Ben Smith and Erin Pleggenkuhle-Miles

Education Economics, 2017, vol. 25, issue 5, 501-512

Abstract: University class structure is changing. To accommodate working students, programmes are increasing their offerings of long night classes – some lasting as long as six hours. While these long classes may be more convenient for students, they have unintended consequences as a result of cognitive load. Using a panel of 124 students (372 observations) and a differencing approach that controls for student characteristics, we show that student exam performance decreases by approximately one-half letter grade on content taught in the second half of a long class (significant at the 5% level).

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2017.1305099

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