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What Is the Level of Contextual Interference in Serial Practice? A Meta-Analytic Review
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Lage, Guilherme M.; Faria, Larissa O.; Ambrósio, Natália F. A.; Borges, Athos M. P.; Apolinário-Souza, Tércio – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2022
For over 40 years, the contextual interference effect in motor learning has been investigated. While the difference between levels of contextual interference experienced under blocked and random practice are well established, the difference in the levels of contextual interference experienced under serial and random practice is still ambiguous.…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Interference (Learning), Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development
Easy Task and Choice: Motivational Interventions Facilitate Motor Skill Learning in Children
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Mousavi, Seyyed Mohammadreza; Iwatsuki, Takehiro – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2022
Expectancies for success and autonomy support have been shown to facilitate motor learning and enhance motor performance. The purpose of the study was to examine whether we replicated (a) enhanced expectancies and autonomy support intervention enhanced motor skill learning in children, and (b) identified the underlying psychological mechanism.…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Perceptual Motor Learning, Motor Development, Intervention
Motor Schema Formation in Children.
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Kelso, J. A. Scott; Norman, Patrice E. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Investigates the effects of variable-practice versus constant-practice on the learning of novel motor schemata in 36 children ranging in age from two years one month to four years. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Drills (Practice), Infant Behavior, Infants, Motor Development
The Transfer of Perceptual and/or Motor Training to the Performance of a Coincidence-Anticipation Task.
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Bard, Chantal; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1995
Tested children's transfer of training in performance of coincidence-anticipation task. At an experimental apparatus, children attempted to intercept a fixed or moving target by pressing a button or by sliding a disk (the criterion task). Found that improved accuracy in intercepting the moving target by sliding the disk occurred only when children…
Descriptors: Children, Motor Development, Perceptual Motor Coordination, Perceptual Motor Learning
Retention and Transfer of Motor Skills: A Review for the Practitioner.
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Fischman, Mark G.; And Others – Quest, 1981
Research about the retention and transfer of motor skills is reviewed and applied to physical education and sport settings. More research that is theoretically and empirically based and from which practitioners can draw their technology is needed. (Authors/CJ)
Descriptors: Athletics, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Project Adapt: A Developmental Approach to Psycho-Motor Transfer. A Guide to Movement and Learning.
Steele, Wah-Leeta – 1976
Described is Project ADAPT (A Developmental Approach to Psychomotor Transfer), a validated program used with 808 primary grade children, some with learning difficulties, over a 3-year period to enhance academic readiness and self esteem through psychomotor training. An introductory project summary explains program objectives, the needs assessment…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Auditory Perception, Class Activities, Eye Hand Coordination