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and conceptual models within a specific subject area, and even experts often fail to apply

Transfer is the sort of Holy Grail in this whole thing and it is very challenging," Mr. Pellagrino said. "We'd like to believe we can create Renaissance men who are experts in a wide array of disciplines and can blithely transfer skills from one to the other, but it just doesn't happen that way. We do know how to promote transfer but it is limited in scope."

The committee found students develop the best ways to solve new problems by learning

Yet the keystone skill, the one that underlies and connects skills in all three areas, may be the trickiest to teach and test: a student's ability to transfer and apply her or his existing knowledge to a problem in a new context.

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"Transfer is deeply connected to your knowledge base and your skill in an area,"

"If we really believe that the fundamental proposition here is transfer, it would dramatically affect what we did in curriculum assessment and instruction,"

"In math, for example, we wouldn't necessarily just give kids these problem sets but engage them in identifying, framing and solving real-world problems that would use those problem sets."