Feedback after good trials and the learning of a complex motor skill in children - doi: 10.4025/reveducfis.v21i2.7745

Abstract

Studies have shown that learning is improved in adults and the elderly if feedback is supplied after “good” instead of after “bad” practice trials. However, the same situation was not confirmed in children, in a study on the learning of a task with a spatial control demand. The objective of the current study was to verify the effects of this variable in the learning of a complex task with balance demand control in children. The participants practiced a task which involved to ride a “pedalo” for a certain distance, in the shortest possible space of time. All of the participants received 50% knowledge of result frequency (KR), in a summary form at every four practice trials. While a group was supplied with KRs for the two most effective trials of each block, the other group was supplied with KRs for the two least effective trials of each block. The results demonstrated no existence of significant differences.