transfer-bridge

What problem does it solve?

It diagnoses whether a learner’s understanding is portable by checking if they can apply the same underlying principle in a slightly different situation (near transfer) and a substantially different domain (far transfer).

Core Features & Use Cases

• Near-transfer challenge: Presents a new scenario that shares the same principle but changes surface features, then asks what is the same and what is different.
• Far-transfer challenge: Presents a cross-domain task that forces abstraction of the underlying structure, then asks learners to name the principle that travels across contexts.
• Diagnostic framing: Treats far-transfer failure as informative (revealing context-bound learning) and supports re-connection via a structured warm-start when stuck.
• Use Case: After a lesson on a concept, run this skill to determine whether the learner can genuinely use the principle outside the original examples, not just reproduce the procedure.

Quick Start

Use the transfer-bridge skill to run a near-then-far transfer check for a learner after they demonstrate understanding of the concept, providing the concept name and original learning context.