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Version 1.4 – Updated February 2026

Cognitive task analysis

Overview

  • Influence: Cognitive task analysis
  • Domain: Teaching Strategies
  • Sub-Domain: Learning intentions
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
  • Influence Definition: A cluster of methods for studying and describing the reasoning, skills required, and progressions needed to master ideas; that then form the basis for teaching interventions.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 2
  • Number of studies: 27
  • Number of students: NA
  • Number of effects: 95
  • Weighted mean effect size: 1.09
  • Robustness index: 2

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making Tofel-Grehl & Feldon Cognitive task analysis–based training: A meta-analysis of studies 2013 Cognitive task analysis 20 NA 56 0.87
Dissertation Lee The impact of cognitive task analysis on performance: A meta-analysis of comparative studies. 2008 Cognitive task analysis 7 NA 39 1.70
TOTAL/AVERAGE 27 NA 95 1.29
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