Skill Acquisition Rates and Patterns Issues and Training Implications [Paperback]

Skill Acquisition Rates and Patterns reviews and synthesizes the data and findings from the literature on skill acquisition, learning, retention, and transfer. This integrative review deals with the domain of time as it influences performance, i.e. with changes in capability to perform that occur as a function of time of practice. The author stresses the applicability of available information to the estimation of an appropriate time course for training and to related areas of potential training improvements.Skill Acquisition Rates and Patterns reviews and synthesizes the data and findings from the literature on skill acquisition, learning, retention, and transfer. This integrative review deals with the domain of time as it influences performance, i.e. with changes in capability to perform that occur as a function of time of practice. The author stresses the applicability of available information to the estimation of an appropriate time course for training and to related areas of potential training improvements.Summary.- Background and Requirement.- Characteristics of the Training Environment.- Constraints in the Training Environment.- Finding Mechanisms for Improvement.- Requirement.- Objectives.- Acquisition.- Retention.- Linkage between Acquisition and Retention.- Domain of Analyses.- Scope and Emphasis.- Comments on the Relevant Literature.- Approach.- Initial Directions.- Modifying Approach and Emphasis.- Emphasizing Retention and Transfer.- Emphasizing Processes of Acquisition.- Acquisition Curves, Shapes and Parameters.- Basic Parameters.- The Nature of Acquisition Functions.- Generalized Power Function.- Generalized Exponential.- Hyperbolic.- Logistic.- Linearity Transforms.- Positive vs. Negative Acceleration.- Comparative Analysis of Acquisition Functions.- The Universality of Learning Functions.- An Information Processing Viewpoint.- The Power Law.- Exponential Equations.- Contrasting the Functions.- InconclusivenesslsŒ