title: Allowing learners to choose: self-controlled practice schedules for learning multiple movement patterns.
abstract: For this study, we investigated the effects of self-controlled practice on learning multiple motor skills. Thirty participants were randomly assigned to self-control or yoked conditions. Participants learned a three-keystroke pattern with three different relative time structures. Those in the self-control group chose one of three relative time structures before each of 90 practice trials; yoked participants were not allowed to choose but were yoked to a self-control participant and followed that individual's sequence of practice trials. Results of the 24-hr serial transfer test revealed the self-control group exhibited significantly lower relative timing error, absolute error, and total error than the yoked group. Findings further support the efficacy of self-controlled learning
authors.affiliation: Department of Kinesiology, California State University-Long Beach, CA 90840, USA. wwu@csulb.edu
authors.forename: Will F W
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Richard A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Magill
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002755:Choice Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills; D014584:User-Computer Interface