Abstract: . . .  makes that knowledge readily accessible for use in real world applications; that is, there is a transfer of training between the classroom and the real world. In the skill acquisition literature, transfer of training between different situations simply does not occur in many cases, even if the task is essentially the same. An interesting example is a study of Brazilian children (Carraher, Carraher and Schliemann, 1985) which found that children from deprived backgrounds had great difficulty performing . . .
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. . .  that the course had helped them write up their term 1 and 2 practical reports (95%). D ISCUSSION The results demonstrate that undergraduate psychology students who completed our course on research design and statistics, which incorporated a number of non-traditional teaching techniques, outperformed a matched group of students who completed a previous course without these innovations. Their exam scores were 10.1% higher, indicating that the effect was not trivial. In addition, students’ ratings of . . .
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. . .  knowing that their results had no consequence and so it would be expected that they should be less motivated to revise. While this study should only be regarded as exploratory, the results give us grounds for optimism regarding the application of these techniques to material of this kind. We have managed to obtain an increase in student performance without a substantial increase in lecturer workload (the lecturer remained available for the workshop), or a substantial increase in resources. While the . . .
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