Measures of meaningful learning of intellectual skills

Conclusion

The results reported in the previous section indicated that the Flexibility and Application scales measured different aspects or dimensions of performance on transfer tasks; these results have suggested that meaningful learning may be particularly related to the flexible dimension of performance. Although the Blind Application Index may not measure a separate aspect of transfer performance, it is nonetheless a useful scale, as it gives a succinct description of an interesting aspect of behaviour—the “non-meaningful” learning of a solution rule.