Chapter 13 of the Clark and Mayer text is called Does Practice Make Perfect? This chapter’s focus is the five principles of practice. The five principles of practice are: 1) Add sufficient practice interactions to e-learning to achieve the objective. 2) Mirror the job. 3) Provide effective feedback. 4) Distribute and mix practice among learning events. 5) Apply multimedia principles. Adding sufficient practice interactions to achieve the objective is imperative to any training. Not all practice types are of good use for certain jobs. A nurse would get more out of real life scenarios on mannequins than he or she would practicing what was learned with a multiple choice test. Practice may not make perfect, but the more you do it the better the chance of expertise. Mirroring the job is necessary to acquire skills to successfully complete the task. There is no better way to know what to do than to...
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