Which scenario illustrates stage-to-stage transfer?

• A. From 3-on-3 basketball to the full game.
• B. From practicing with a pitching machine to game batting.
• C. Kicking with the weaker foot.
• D. Holding long levers.

Answer: (A)

Stage-to-stage transfer happens when you take a skill learned in an earlier, simplified or smaller version of a task and apply it to a later, more complete version of the same task. Moving from a 3-on-3 basketball format to the full 5-on-5 game fits this idea because the fundamental abilities—dribbling, passing, shooting, reading the defense—are the same, but the context becomes more demanding with more players, more space, and more complex tactics. The skill set is carried forward as the task becomes more complex, which is exactly stage-to-stage transfer.

The other scenarios involve different types of transfer or aspects of skill, not a progression through stages of the same task: practicing with a pitching machine before game batting is practice-to-performance transfer, not a staged progression within the same skill; kicking with the weaker foot is about using the non-dominant limb rather than transferring between learning stages; holding long levers concerns posture or technique, not transferring a learned skill to a more advanced stage of the task.