All tagged transfer
In today’s post, I’m covering a set of experiments published by Andrew Butler and colleagues (1) titled Retrieving and Applying Knowledge to Different Examples Promotes Transfer of Learning. I really like this paper for a few reasons. First and foremost, …
Fundamentally, we are all learners and as professionals in education, we are expected to continue learning. This means that the same evidence-based strategies that you seek out for your students can apply to you as well.
Today I’m reviewing a study that directly compared two effective learning strategies (retrieval practice and worked examples) on their usefulness for generalizing knowledge (transfer).
Transfer of learning, the process by which people can recognize and apply previously learned information to different situations, is one of the primary goals of education.
If you read our blog, even sporadically, you are almost certainly aware that investigations into evidence-based learning strategies have been ongoing for quite some time. In fact, as we near the end of 2025, I’m realizing that Ebbinghaus’ work on spaced practice …
About 8 years ago (seriously, I can’t believe we’ve been doing this for so long…), we published a pair of blog posts on understanding both near and far transfer (Part 1; Part 2). Transfer is one of my favorite topics, in part because it is arguably the whole point of most formal education. The purpose…
