Principles and practice of skills acquisition

Abstract

An article in Education & Training (March 1979) by H. Gershoni discussed the well known phenomenon of industrial workers obtaining, by trial and error, efficient — or more commonly inefficient — methods of performing motor tasks in the course of their day to day work. Mr. Gershoni centred his thoughts on macro and micro methods which he defined in terms of the movements of the workpieces or the work procedure (the macro method) and the motions made by the operator whilst performing the work procedure (the micro method). Essentially this distinction is the What/How distinction of Seymour.

Citation

James, R. (1980), "Principles and practice of skills acquisition", Education + Training, Vol. 22 No. 4, pp. 105-108. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb016703