9 - Off the Learning Curve - Measuring Skill Acquisition

How do we know how well a new training program or piece of sports
equipment is working?  Is looking at how performance changes
in practice (by plotting a "learning curve") really the best way
to assess skill acquisition. No, no it isn’t.  In this
episode I make the case for going off the learning curve in favor
of other ways of measuring skill learning in sport.


Technically Challenged: Review of motion tracking
system http://inertia-technology.com/promove-mini


 


Links to articles discussed:


Contextual interference effects on the acquisition, retention,
and transfer of a motor skill


Contextual interference: a meta-analytic study


Practicing Field Hockey Skills Along the Contextual Interference
Continuum: A Comparison of Five Practice Schedules


Increased movement accuracy and reduced EMG activity as the
result of adopting an external focus of attention 


 


More information


http://www.perceptionactionpodcast.libsyn.com/


My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)


My ASU Web page


Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)


Twitter: @Shakeywaits


Email: robgray@asu.edu


 


Credits:


The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action


Minimal Damage – Learning Curve


Jenny O – Learned My Lessons


Greg Houwer – Slow Learner


Pablo – Learn a Lesson


Golden Blondes – Skilled


Beans & Bullets - Love Machine


 


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