Methods Of Presenting Practice Flashcards
What is whole practice?
Skill is learned in its entirety
What are the pros and cons of whole practice?
Advantages:
- Promotes kinaesthetic awareness
- Useful for simple, continuous skills
- Appropriate for low org. skills
Disadvantages:
- Can overload novice performers
- Difficult to learn complex skills this way
Give an example of whole practice
Learning the triple jump by performing the three key components together:
- hop
- skip
- jump
What is whole-part-whole practice?
Practising the skill in its entirety and then breaking the skill down into its subroutines, before completing the skill as a whole again.
What are the pros and cons of whole-part-whole practice?
Advantages:
- Useful for complex skills which can be clearly separated into individual subroutines
- Enables some kinaesthetic feel
- Useful for serial skills
Disadvantages:
- Time consuming
- Not useful for highly organised skills
- Can reduce kinaesthetic understanding of skills
Give an example of whole-part-whole practice
Practising all three stages of the triple jump together and then learning the hop, skip and jump individually before combining them again.
What is progressive-part practice?
Learning the individual subroutines in chronological order, and then joining these together in order. Eventually the skill is learned in its entirety.
What are the pros and cons of progressive-part practice?
Advantages:
- Useful for highly organised skills
- Useful for serial skills
- Aids correct timing of each subroutine
- Enables understanding of how the subroutines interact
Disadvantages:
- Disjointed feel to the skill
- Can make the skill flow less effectively
Give an example of progressive-part practice
Learning the triple jump by practising the hop, then the skip, then the hop+skip, then the jump, then the hop + skip + jump.
