DTIC ADA239574: Optimizing the Long Term Retention pdf

DTIC ADA239574: Optimizing the Long Term Retention

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This research program identifies the characteristics of knowledge and skill most resistant to decay because of disuse. The program is divided into analytic and structural approaches. Two lines of research are used to investigate skill retention and maintenance using the analytic approach. The first investigates different laboratory analogues of component military skills, and the second investigates parallel natural skills learned by the college population during prior education. We have developed five laboratory methodologies and completed experimental studies involving each of them, and have identified four natural skills and gathered long-term retention data for each of these skills. For the structural approach, we designed an experimental paradigm to assess the detailed encoding of new knowledge at presentation and at delay using verbal report techniques and chronometric measurement of retrieval components. We completed several studies of retention of vocabulary items with this paradigm. In addition, we formulated a theoretical framework, on the notion of procedural reinstatement, and have used this framework to account for findings from many different facets of our research program, both analytic and structural

• Creator/s: Defense Technical Information Center
• Date: 6/1/1991
• Year: 1991
• Book Topics/Themes: DTIC Archive, Healy, Alice F, COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER, *METHODOLOGY, SKILLS, STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES, RESISTANCE, REPORTS, LONG RANGE(TIME), POPULATION, RETENTION(GENERAL), INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, MILITARY APPLICATIONS, LABORATORIES, UNIVERSITIES, VOCABULARY, RETENTION(PSYCHOLOGY), DECAY, VERBAL BEHAVIOR, EXPERIMENTAL DATA

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