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Persuasive Essay On Motor Learning

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Last year as a 2nd bachelor degree seeking student, I volunteered to participate in a motor learning study about putting golf balls that aimed to replicate previous studies [my basis for my proposal] that revealed learners studying and practicing a motor skill with the expectation of having to teach the skill could experience enhanced motor learning compared to learners expecting to be tested on the skill. One idea for future research was to conduct a similar study with novice, student pilots who had never received flight instruction to attempt a replication of similar findings in the development of motor learning theory, specifically the development of theory regarding the acquisition phase of learning a new skill (Daou, Lohse, & Miller, 2016).
What key suggestion for future research did the authors address in their study?
The study addressed a shortcoming in the small body of literature indicating that expecting to teach may enhance the learning of declarative knowledge, such as academic information. Previous research had not investigated the effects of expecting to teach on motor learning [such as putting a golf ball], which relies heavily on procedural knowledge. They sought to determine if the participant’s [expecting to teach] learning was indirectly enhanced by motivation to spend more time studying and practicing or if the participant’s learning was directly [as revealed in a previous study] improved after statistically controlling the quantity of studying and

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