Sentence examples for near transfer from inspiring English sources

[Knowledge of course content – Near transfer].

Further, practice retrieval can support performance on near transfer tasks (Butler, 2010; Rohrer, Taylor, & Sholar, 2010).

H1: That dialog-based tutoring enhancements to ALEKS explanations will lead to greater learning gains on ALEKS assessments (near transfer).

Near transfer occurs when the new learning situation is similar to a previous situation and differs from it only slightly.

While this may not be surprising because these tasks represent near transfer, it has important practical implications.

The Paper Folding and Purdue Rotations tests were used as near transfer tasks, as they involved visualizations similar to Think3d!'s origami visualizations and both tests showed improvements.

Fig. 4 Example of a near-transfer problem Fig. 5 Example of a far-transfer problem.

The examples of near-transfer and far-transfer problems are presented in Figs. 4 and 5, respectively.

After two pairs of examples and problems had been completed as outlined above, participants were asked to solve two problems as a near-transfer test (7 min each).

Both approaches were examined in learners with different levels of prior knowledge, and a near-transfer test and a far-transfer test were used to evaluate learning effectiveness.

Four of the problems had a similar structure but surface features different from the training tasks, which were used for the near-transfer test.