Many new skills are acquired during early childhood. Typical laboratory skill learning tasks are not applicable for developmental studies that involve children younger than 8 years of age. It is not clear whether young children and adults share a basic underlying skill learning mechanism. In the present study, the learning and retention of a simple grapho-motor pattern were studied in three age...

INTRODUCTION The study of expertise tends to focus on humans who can perform extraordinary feats. Although the way in which expertise is acquired is often characterized as similar to everyday skill acquisition, the attainment of basic numeracy skills is rarely considered in the same context as the attainment of expertise. It is clear, though, that average numeracy skills possess all the hallmar...

Athletes devote their lives to practicing their chosen sport so as to attain the highest level of skilled performance. A perennial question is why are some athletes better than others? Most debates on this issue reduce to genetics (natural abilities) vs differences in accumulated deliberative practice. In contrast, the target article under discussion here reports on a study that identified psyc...

OBJECTIVE Box model trainers have been used for many years to facilitate the improvement of laparoscopic skills. However, there are limited data available on box trainers and their impact on skill acquisition, assessed by virtual reality systems. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty-two Postgraduate Year 1 gynecology residents with no laparoscopic experience were randomly divided into one group that r...

The New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI) accredits a number of specific New Zealand planning programmes offered by some New Zealand universities as meeting the academic requirements for their graduates to enter the Institute as graduate members. The programmes are reviewed every five years to assess their appropriateness for continued accreditation. A set of core planning knowledge and skill i...

An increasing number of automated models can make inferences about learners’ understanding based on their problem solving choices in interactive educational technologies. One potential use of these models is to personalize feedback interventions. We investigate using the output of an inverse planning model to choose feedback activities for learners. The inverse planning model uses the patterns ...

BACKGROUND The role of deliberate practice in medical students' development from novice to expert was examined for preclinical skill training. METHODS Students in years 1-3 completed 34 Likert type items, adapted from a questionnaire about the use of deliberate practice in cognitive learning. Exploratory factor analysis and reliability analysis were used to validate the questionnaire. Analysi...

the study aims to review library administrators, role in strategic planning to improve staffs, practice in sari universities. it is a descriptive-survey study. the statistical population includes 41 library administrators and staff in sari province but 35 subjects responded to the questionnaire used to gather the data. the data indicate that there is a significant relationship between administr...

We introduce our work on pouring as an example of complicated tasks for robots. The architecture is a skill library with planning and learning methods. We briefly describe our representation for pouring, then discuss problems and future directions.

THE GRAPPLING SPORTS OF JUDO, JIU-JITSU, AND WRESTLING REQUIRE THE ATHLETE TO BE IN PEAK PHYSICAL SHAPE. SPECIFIC TRAINING TARGETING ALL HEALTHAND SKILL-RELATED FITNESS CONDITIONING COMPONENTS IS NEEDED TO MAXIMIZE SUCCESS IN GRAPPLING SPORTS. STRENGTH AND CONDITION PROGRAMS FOR GRAPPLERS CONSIST OF WEIGHT, PLYOMETRIC, AGILITY, FLEXIBILITY, SPEED, AND AEROBIC TRAINING ALL PROPERLY PERIODIZED AN...