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1. Retention stats
   Sophie
   You will find all sorts of stats covering memory and learning retention. Please don’t treat the following – which is my favourite version – as statistically valid but more as a signal for what works and in roughly what proportions.

   10% of what we read
   20% of what we hear
   30% of what we see
   50% of what we hear and see
   60% of what we say (repeating what we have heard and seen)
   70% of what we do (practicing what we have heard and seen)
   90% of what we hear, say, see and do

   There is a new book out ‘The Transfer of Learning: Participants’ Perspectives of Adult Education and Training’ by Sarah Leberman, Lex McDonald, and Stephanie Doyle. I have not read it yet but may be worth considering – not for stats but for how to make learning stick and get put into practice, which is a little more involved than recall, or memory, alone.

   Graham

2. training & retention stats
   Hi Sophie
   I am away from the office this week so cannot give the figures but the following publications have some interesting stats:
   Accelerated learning – Colin Rose
   Super learning 2000

   Tom Lambert did a research piece while at xerox – cannot remember where it was published – worth looking at his publications

   If you can wait till the end of the week i will look them up and forward the to you.

   Mike

3. Detterman & Sternberg
   Hi Sophie,

   Check out the work of Detterman & Sternberg – the search I did on Google used these key words:

   “detterman sternberg transfer of learning”

   Best wishes,

   Martin