Define what we mean by transfer and explain why it is important to teachers and learners.

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Transfer is the influence of prior knowledge, skills, strategies, or principles on new learning. Transfer is important because it makes learning more efficient. For students, if transfer occurs the new knowledge, skills, strategies, or principles are more likely to be more easily learned, and used more and retained. Transfer is important to teachers because it is often something that must be addressed in their instructional plans.

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