Allowing Learners to Choose: Self-Controlled Practice Schedules for Learning Multiple Movement Patterns

• Autores: Will F. W. Wu, Richard A. Magill
• Localización: Research quarterly for exercise and sport, ISSN 0270-1367, Vol. 82, Nº. 3, 2011, págs. 449-457
• Idioma: inglés
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  • For this study, we investigated the effects of self-controlled practice on learning multiple motor skills. Thirty participants were randomly assigned to self-control or yoked conditions. Participants learned a three-keystroke pattern with three different relative time structures. Those in the self-control group chose one of three relative time structures before each of 90 practice trials; yoked participants were not allowed to choose but were yoked to a self-control participant and followed that individual�s sequence of practice trials. Results of the 24-hr serial transfer test revealed the self-control group exhibited significantly lower relative timing error, absolute error, and total error than the yoked group. Findings further support the efficacy of self-controlled learning.