Transfer of learning from a modern multidisciplinary perspective

The chapters contained in the book present a new and exciting set of conceptual tools that will not only allow us to think about transfer in more productive ways, but will also enable the development of educational and measurement tools that will greatly facilitate our ability to educate the childre...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Mestre, Jose P. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP, 2005.
SeriesCurrent perspectives on cognition, learning, and instruction.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781036928643
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-673-5
Physical Description1 online resource (xxvi, 393 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Framing the transfer problem
  • James M. Royer, Jose P. Mestre, and Robert J. Dufresne vii
  • Efficiency and innovation in transfer
  • Daniel L. Schwartz, John D. Bransford, and David Sears
  • Fuzzy-trace theory : implications for transfer in teaching and learning / Christopher R. Wolfe, Valerie F. Reyna, and Charles J. Brainerd
  • Resources, framing, and transfer / David Hammer ... [et al.]
  • What coordination has to say about transfer
  • Andrea A. Disessa and Joseph F. Wagner
  • Knowledge representation and coordination in the transfer process / Robert Dufresne ... [et al.]
  • Dynamic transfer : a perspective from physics education research
  • N. Sanjay Rebello ... [et al.]
  • Theory, level, and function : three dimensions for understanding transfer and student assessment / Daniel T. Hickey and James W. Pellegrino
  • Reframing the evaluation of education : assessing whether learning transfers beyond the classroom / Susan M. Barnett and Stephen J. Ceci
  • Transfer between variants of mathematics test questions / Mary E. Morley, René R. Lawless, and Brent Bridgeman
  • Transfer of mathematical problem-solving procedures acquired through physical science instruction : when you don't see it, why not? / Zbigniew Dziembowski and Nora Newcombe
  • How far can transfer go? making transfer happen across physical, temporal, and conceptual space / Milton D. Hakel and Diane F. Halpern
  • Transfer of learning in informal education : the case of television / Shalom M. Fisch, Heather Kirkorian, and Daniel Anderson.