Costs and benefits of more learner freedom: meta-analyses of exploratory and learner control training methods.

Objective: Individual meta-analyses were conducted for six training methods as part of a U.S. Army basic research project.

The influence of cognitive load on transfer with error prevention training methods: a meta-analysis.

Objective: The objective was to conduct research synthesis for the U.S.Army on the effectiveness of two error prevention training strategies (training wheels and scaffolding) on the transfer of training.

Effectiveness of part-task training and increasing-difficulty training strategies: a meta-analysis approach.

Objective: The objective was to conduct meta-analyses that investigated the effects of two training strategies, increasing difficulty (ID) and part-task training (PTT), on transfer of skills and the variables that moderate effectiveness of the strategies.

Background: Cognitive load theory (CLT) provides a basis for predicting that training strategies reducing the intrinsic load of a task during training avail more resources to be devoted to learning. Two strategies that accomplish this goal, by dividing tasks in parts or by simplifying tasks in early training trials, have offered only mixed success.

The experience of providing physical therapy in a changing health care environment.

Background And Purpose: The changes in the health care environment during the last decade have had an impact on the roles and responsibilities of all health care professionals. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the experience of staff physical therapists during a time of systemic change within a large urban academic medical center.

Subjects And Methods: Participants were 5 physical therapists working in various clinical settings within the medical center.