Alternative Perspectives on the Transfer of Learning: History, Issues, and Challenges for Future Research

By Joanne Lobato. 2006

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Human Factors and Ergonomics

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“Noticing” as an Alternative Transfer of Learning Process (2012, methodology): “For this study, we draw upon the AOT approach ( Lobato, 2003 , 2006 , 2008a , 2008b ) to develop “noticing” as a transfer process by coordinating what individuals notice with the social organization of their noticing.”
Transfer of Learning Transformed. (2013, background): “The basis for this assumption is that knowledge is separable from the context in which it is developed, rather than a function of activity, social interactions, culture, and history (Lobato, 2006).”
CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF MATHEMATICAL IDEAS: SOME SPADEWORK AT THE FOUNDATION OF MATHEMATICS EDUCATION 1 (2008, background): “has shown, many students do not see ideas of rate of change, average rate of change, proportionality, and slope as being interconnected ( Lobato, 2006; Lobato & Siebert, 2002; Lobato & Thanheiser, 2002).”
Limits of Generalizing in Education Research: Why Criteria for Research Generalization Should Include Population Heterogeneity and Uses of Knowledge Claims (2014, neutral): “(CIHR, 2011) There now exists extensive empirical evidence that knowledge is situated and specific to the circumstances so that what is useful in one setting is not useful in another (e.g., Lave, 1988; Lobato, 2006; Packer, 2001; Saxe, 1991; Tuomi-Gröhn & Engeström, 2003).”
The influence of framing on transfer: initial evidence from a tutoring experiment (2011, background): “Transfer is also one of the most longstanding and difficult research topics in education and psychology (Barnett and Ceci 2002; Detterman and Sternberg 1993; Gick and Holyoak 1983; Judd 1908; Lave 1988; Lobato 2006; Salomon and Perkins 1989; Thorndike and Woodworth 1901).”
Talk and Conceptual Change at Work: Adequate Representation and Epistemic Stance in a Comparative Analysis of Statistical Consulting and Teacher Workgroups (2012, background): “In this sense, Alberto and Ted met as one phase of a process of analogical comparison that extended, both in time and in the surrounding research organization, far beyond accepted theories of learning by analogy available to us from cognitive and educational psychology (e.g., Gentner, Loewenstein, &”
Effects of Small-Group Learning on Transfer: a Meta-Analysis (2015, background): “Because “transfer” is a term with many potential conceptualizations (cf. Barnett and Ceci 2002; Lobato 2006), studies had to explicitly use the term “transfer” in order to be included in the meta-analysis.”
Learning by Mapping Across Situations (2012, background): “These newer alternative perspectives have enhanced understandings of transfer, as revealed by articles in the transfer strand of the Journal of the Learning Sciences (Lobato, 2006).”
A Transfer-in-Pieces Consideration of the Perception of Structure in the Transfer of Learning (2010, background): “In response, Lobato (2003, 2006, 2008a, 2008b) endorsed an actor-oriented perspective on transfer, arguing that when the search for similarities is seen from the perspective of the learner (the “actor”), transfer is found quite readily—but not necessarily in the ways sought by the researcher or…”
Are representations to be provided or generated in primary mathematics education? Effects on transfer (2009, background): “Lobato’s ‘‘actor-oriented viewpoint’’ describes how individuals generate their own similarities between problems by making generalizations based on affordances and constraints ( Lobato, 2003, 2006 ).”
The Actor-Oriented Transfer Perspective and Its Contributions to Educational Research and Practice (2012, background): “This article focuses on one such alternative approach—the actor-oriented transfer perspective (AOT; Lobato, 2003, 2006, 2008a, 2008b).”
Motivation and Transfer: The Role of Mastery-Approach Goals in Preparation for Future Learning (2012, background): “These mixed laboratory findings have inspired a number of alternative approaches that expand the idea of transfer beyond the direct application of prior knowledge ( Bransford & Schwartz, 1999 ; Greeno, 2006 ; Lave, 1988 ; Lobato, 2006 ).”
A Taxonomy for Categorizing Generalizations: Generalizing Actions and Reflection Generalizations (2007, background): “Classical transfer studies privilege the perspective of the observer because the researcher predetermines what counts as transfer based on the correspondences that experts make between initial learning and transfer tasks (Lobato, 2006).”
Seeing Deep Structure From the Interactions of Surface Features (2012, neutral): “Similarly, Lobato (2006) suggested that “transfer from the actororiented perspective is the influence of learners’ prior [initial learning] activities on their [subsequent] activity in novel situations” (p. 437).”