This lab was conducted to allow us to understand the pros, cons and differences of part practice and whole practice. Part practice is the practice of a complex skill in a more simplified form with three parts: fractionization, segmentation, and simplification. Whole practice is when a task is practiced as one entire form. We used part and whole practice with juggling in the lab that we performed. Bethani performed the part practice first, and then I performed the whole practice.
Bethani began by taking one ball and throwing it into the other hand. The second part she did was holding one ball in each hand and throwing the ball in the right hand in an arc towards the left hand and when it reaches its peak she threw the ball in the left hand towards the right hand, then she would catch both balls. In the third part of her practice she held two balls in her right hand and on ball in her left. She threw the first ball in the right hand into the air and as it reached its peak she threw the ball in the left hand and as it reached its peak she threw the second ball in her right hand towards her left hand and instead of catching them she would allow them to drop. In the fourth part she repeated part three except for this time she caught the balls. When I did the whole practice I would just do part four.
The results of Bethani’s retention test were an average of 2.14, and the average from my retention test was 1.71. Our results show that the part practice was better. The lab reading states that the part practice is not always effective, when one part is dependent on another part or for rapid, discrete actions. Many factors could have influenced our results such as one person having better hand eye coordination, or could have developed juggling skills previous of the lab. This lab was very helpful with part and whole practice and fun to perform.
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