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- Title
Moderately Skilled Learners Benefit by Practicing with Systematic Increases in Contextual Interference.
- Authors
Porter, Jared M.; Saemi, Esmaeel
- Abstract
The purpose of this experiment was to investigate if moderately skilled participants practicing with systematic increases in contextual interference (CI) for multiple days would perform better than equally skilled participants who practiced with traditional blocked and random scheduling. Participants (N=45) practiced three different basketball related passes (two hand chest, two hand overhead, single arm) using either a blocked, random, or increasing-CI practice schedule. All participants practiced 81 trials per day for five consecutive days, totaling 405 practice trials. Participants completed an immediate retention test, and a 48 hr delayed retention test. The results of the immediate and delayed retention test showed that practicing with gradual increases in CI resulted in superior performance compared to traditional blocked and random scheduling.
- Subjects
PRACTICE (Sports); BASKETBALL; COACHING (Athletics); PHYSICAL education; MOTOR learning
- Publication
International Journal of Coaching Science, 2010, Vol 4, Issue 2, p61
- ISSN
1975-8286
- Publication type
Article