Document Title: Transfer of learning, ensuring transfer of learning among student

Paper code: 13120

Transfer of learning, ensuring transfer of learning among student

Transfer, in the context of learning, has been defined as an individual’s ability to extend what has been learned in one context to new contexts for example, from school to the workplace (Bransford et al., 2017). Research shows that some learning experiences can result in effective in-context performance, but poor transfer, while others produce effective in-context performance as well as positive transfer. In other words, knowledge is not the same as knowledge that is usable in the future. Schooling is most impactful when students regularly transfer what they learn.

Transfer of learning is the carryover of learning experiences in one situation into other learning experiences (Costa and Kallick, 2017). It is the influence a person's idea has on his acquired skill and performance in his present task. If a student carries over his learning of addition and subtraction of money in school to a real-life shopping situation where he gives or takes balances, then there has been a learning transfer.

Transfer has a direct bearing on education. Educators hope that students transfer what they learn from one class to another and to the outside world. Educators also hope students transfer experiences from home to help make sense of lessons at school. There are two major approaches to the study of transfer. One approach characterizes the knowledge and conditions of acquisition that optimize the chances of transfer. The other approach inquires into the nature of individuals and the cultural contexts that transform them into more adaptive participants.

To ensure transfer of learning among student, the teacher should ensure the following;