EDPS 49100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Functional Skills Qualification, Catchphrase

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Educational and Psychological Studies
• Course: EDPS 49100
• Professor: Professor Mason

Document Summary

Stages of learning: learning moves through different stages related to one"s understanding of the target skill, acquisition skill: new skills, performed with accuracy varying from. The focus of early learning is usually on approximate performance of the core steps of a skill: maintenance stage: students are expected to use the skill for all of the routines or activities they complete. Skills in this stage are still imperfect, but good enough to use with some level of independence. Practice makes perfect applies to this stage: fluency or proficiency stage: uses the catchphrase speed it up and perfect it . Students may be taught to monitor the tempo (rate & duration) of the task performed. Other students focus on improving the quality of the task performance: generalization stage: goal is to learn to use it anywhere and whenever it is needed. Students are exposed to more variations in task materials and environments.