Professor Nicola Hodges - Using a Challenge Based Coaching Framework
The Coach Doctor Podcast
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The Contextual Interference Effect
The distinction between blocked and random practice is referred to as the contextual interference effect, which has received a lot of attention in the motor learning literature. Random practice for an individual who is at a lower skill level now is in terms of functional difficulty quite high. And so it's appropriate to sort of scale the difficulties to the individual. The idea that you are having to continually remember, recall one skill and then quote, unquote, forget it while you recall the second skill and then go back to it? That continual switching between skills is really beneficial for learning processes," he says.
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