We examined the controlling factors that allow a prompted skill to become autonomous in a discrete-trials implementation of Touchette's (1971) progressively delayed prompting procedure, but our subjects were rats rather than children with disabilities. Our prompted skill was a left-right lever-press sequence guided by two panel lights. We manipulated (a) the effectiveness of the guiding lights ...

Why are performance trade-offs so rarely detected in animals when their underlying physiological basis seems so intuitive? One possibility is that individual variation in health, fitness, nutrition, development or genetics, or 'individual quality', makes some individuals better or worse performers across all motor tasks. If this is the case, then correcting for individual quality should reveal ...

Transfer (i.e., the application of a learned skill in a novel context) is an important and desirable outcome of motor skill learning. While much research has been devoted to understanding transfer of explicit skills the mechanisms of skill transfer after incidental learning remain poorly understood. The aim of this study was to (1) examine the effect of practice schedule on transfer and (2) inv...

Various kinds of IT and computer technology have enabled language tests to be delivered online or on computer, and to have much faster scoring time. Such computer-based tests can well assess three skill areas such as reading, writing, and listening comprehension. However, in many cases, speaking ability is still inferred by the scores obtained for those three skill areas. Ordinate Corporation a...

The thesis entitled “The correlation between students’ mindset and speaking skill (A Correlational Research at Ninth grade students of MTsN Aceh Utara)”. There are four skills in English; listening, speaking, writing reading. Among English, is most dreaded form communication it difficult to be mastered learning a new language. In mastering was not enough only by being expert grammar, reading ha...

This paper will describe current work at Alelo to track learner interactions with learning systems and analyze the data to derive profiles of learner competencies. This includes both linguistic knowledge (e.g., the ability to recognize and recall words and phrases) and linguistic skills (e.g., the ability to perform communicative functions involving speaking and listening). The learner modeling...

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...