Name: Angilyn V.

Lagatic BPED 1-A  

Retention and Transfer of Learning

Retention of Learning:

 It is easy to say "teach thoroughly and with meaning" but study suggest, material
thoroughly learned is highly resistant to forgetting
 Meaningful learning builds patterns of relationships in the learner’s consciousness,
which is one reason to conduct scenario-based training (SBT)
 In contrast, rote learning is superficial and is not easily retained
 Meaningful learning goes deep because it involves principles and concepts anchored in
the student’s own experiences
 The following discussion emphasizes five principles, which are generally accepted as
having a direct application to remembering
 -Praise Stimulates Remembering
 -Recall is Promoted by Association
 -Favorable Attitudes Aid Retention
 -Learning with all senses is most effective
 -Meaning Repetition aids recall

Transfer of Learning:

 Transfer of learning is broadly defined as the ability to apply knowledge or procedures

learned in one context to new contexts
 Learning occurs more quickly and the learner develops a deeper understanding of the
task if he or she brings some knowledge or skills from previous learning
 A positive transfer of learning occurs when the learner practices under a variety of
conditions, underscoring again the value of SBT

What is the difference between the retention and transfer?

How do we know if you have learned the first thing we can try to do is have a retention
test so what we do is you have practiced something and then we give you a test to see if you
know or can perform this skill or the knowledge.It’s really that’s great for your midterm exams
are a form of retention test, your game situation in a sport or even, just playing again is a form
of a retention test transfer. A little different a little bit different a transfer test involves
performing a skill that you’ve learned or using knowledge that you’ve acquired but in a novel
situation.And where the parameters are different you hear this a lot and I’ll give you an
example which is been in the news. A bit think of Lumosity if you’ve never played Lumosity it’s a
series of games that you’re supposed to make you better at memory or paying attention or any
number of things. And the hope is if you play their memory game that just makes you better at
memory in general so does the practice that you have done in the Lumosity game transfer to a
real-world situation where you need to remember something and the answer is no as it turns
out in terms of sports.In a perfect world you would practice every skill in every conceivable
situation but that’s very difficult to do so frequently in sports you have to ask does the practice
skill transfer to a game situation.A classic example the football tire drill so if you’ve ever seen a
sports movie you get people running through tires here’s the problem do you ever actually do
that on a sports fuel .And the answer is no so you’re learning a skill that has no real transfer to
the game situation one way to think of this is if you can learn something you can measure
accuracy so imagine. You have a very simple graph and on the x-axis we’ll have practice
time and on the y-axis we’ll just have skill to keep it simple and what you hope is that over time.
Your skill improves now if you take a break from practice and you were tested you would hope
that you would retain that so a retention test would show a score that is similar to the end of
practice. Over here and you say that you have learned and if you do a transfer test it’s to a
unique situation and of would imagine that again your score is similar to practice that is the
difference between retention and transfer.