Deliberate practice
Overview
- Influence: Deliberate practice
- Domain: Student Learning Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Learning strategies
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
- Influence Definition: A learning technique that involves extensive engagement in relevant practice activities in order to improve particular aspects of performance. Deliberate practice often refers to challenging, effortful repetition, often adjusted through feedback. While regular practice can include much repetitions, deliberate practice requires focused attention and is conducted with the specific goal of improving performance.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 3
- Number of studies: 161
- Number of students: 13,689
- Number of effects: 316
- Effect size: 0.79
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychological Science | Macnamara, Hambrick, & Oswald | USA | Deliberate practice and performance in music, games, sports, education, and professions: A meta-analysis | 2014 | Deliberate practice | 88 | 11,135 | 157 | 0.35 |
| Journal of Sport Psychology | Feltz & Landers | USA | The effects of mental practice on motor skill learning and performance: A meta-analysis | 1983 | Mental practice on motor skill learning | 60 | 1,766 | 146 | 0.48 |
| Frontiers in Psychology | Platz, Kopiez, Lehmann, & Wolf | Germany | The influence of deliberate practice on musical achievement: a meta-analysis | 2014 | Deliberate practice | 13 | 788 | 13 | 1.54 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 161 | 13,689 | 316 | 0.79 | |||||
Confidence
The Confidence is the average of these four measures, each divided into five approximately equal groups and assigned a value from 1 to 5 based on the following criteria:
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Number of Meta-analyses
- 1 = 1
- 2 = 2–3
- 3 = 4–6
- 4 = 7–9
- 5 = 10+
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Number of Studies
- 1 = 1–10
- 2 = 11–50
- 3 = 51–200
- 4 = 201–400
- 5 = 400+
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Number of Students
- 1 = 1–2,500
- 2 = 2,501–10,000
- 3 = 10,000–20,000
- 4 = 20,000–100,000
- 5 = 100,001+
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Number of Effects
- 1 = 1–100
- 2 = 101–300
- 3 = 301–600
- 4 = 601–1,200
- 5 = 1,200+
| Number of Meta-Analyses | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Overall Confidence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confidence Factor | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |