Mental Effort and Load–Translingual Scale
MEL-TS addresses a key measurement problem in international educational research: learners across languages may not interpret “mental effort” and “mental load” in the same way. The project develops and validates translingual items that distinguish intentionally invested mental effort from passively experienced mental load in self-regulated learning. By combining multilingual item development and validation, MEL-TS supports more comparable research across languages and cultural contexts.
Collaborators and institutions: Dwayne Lieck, University of Freiburg; Lisa Bender, University of Freiburg; Sascha Schneider, University of Zurich; Vincent Hoogerheide, Utrecht University; Juliette C. Désiron, University of Fribourg; Juan Cristobal “Cris” Castro-Alonso, University of Birmingham; Diana Pak, University of Zurich; Eliana Brianza, University of Zurich; Fred Paas, Erasmus University Rotterdam and University of New South Wales.
