Transfer strategies
Overview
- Influence: Transfer strategies
- Domain: Student Learning Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Meta-cognitive/self-regulated learning
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
- Influence Definition: For learning to be effective, students must be able to make a spontaneous, unprompted, and appropriate transfer of a learning or problem-solving strategy from one context to another. This can be near transfer to new problems similar to the instruction, or far transfer to new situations and domains.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 5
- Number of studies: 211
- Number of students: 7,315
- Number of effects: 234
- Effect size: 0.86
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 |
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Report | Rayner, Bernard, & Osana | Quebec | A Meta-Analysis of Transfer of Learning in Mathematics with a Focus on Teaching Interventions | 2013 | Transfer in math | 53 | 0 | 116 | 0.80 |
Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning | Marzano, Gaddy, & Dean | What Works in Classroom Instruction | 2000 | Experimental inquiry | 6 | 0 | 6 | 1.14 | |
Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning | Marzano, Gaddy, & Dean | What Works in Classroom Instruction | 2000 | Identifying similarities and differences | 51 | 0 | 51 | 1.32 | |
School Science and Mathematics | Apthorp & Dean | USA | Using similarities and differences: A meta-analysis of its effects and emergent patterns | 2012 | Similarities & Differences transfer | 12 | 1,650 | 12 | 0.65 |
Journal of Management | Blume, Ford, Baldwin, & Huang | USA | Transfer of training: A meta-analytic review | 2010 | Transfer on learning | 89 | 5,665 | 49 | 0.39 |
TOTAL/AVERAGE | 211 | 7,315 | 234 | 0.86 |
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 | |
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Confidence Factor | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 |