Toward a General Theory of Expertise

Toward a General Theory of Expertise
Author: K. Anders Ericsson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1991-08-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521406123

During the last twenty years our understanding of expertise has dramatically increased. Laboratory analysis of chess masters, experts in physics and medicine, musicians, athletics, writers, and performance artists have included careful examination of the cognitive processes mediating outstanding performance in very diverse areas of expertise. These analyses have shown that expert performance is primarily a reflection of acquired skill resulting from the accumulation of domain-specific knowledge and methods during many years of training practice. The importance of domain-specific knowledge has led researchers on expertise to focus on characteristics of expertise in specific domains. In Toward a General Theory of Expertise many of the world's foremost scientists review the state-of-the-art knowledge about expertise in different domains, with the goal of identifying characteristics of expert performance that are generalizable across many different areas of expertise. These essays provide a comprehensive summary of general methods for studying expertise and of current knowledge about expertise in chess, physics, medicine, sports and performance arts, music, writing, and decision making. Most important, the essays reveal the existence of many general characteristics of expertise.

Development of Professional Expertise

Development of Professional Expertise
Author: K. Anders Ericsson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 571
Release: 2009-06-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521518466

Professionals such as medical doctors, aeroplane pilots, lawyers, and technical specialists find that some of their peers have reached high levels of achievement that are difficult to measure objectively. In order to understand to what extent it is possible to learn from these expert performers for the purpose of helping others improve their performance, we first need to reproduce and measure this performance. This book is designed to provide the first comprehensive overview of research on the acquisition and training of professional performance as measured by objective methods rather than by subjective ratings by supervisors. In this collection of articles, the world's foremost experts discuss methods for assessing the experts' knowledge and review our knowledge on how we can measure professional performance and design training environments that permit beginning and experienced professionals to develop and maintain their high levels of performance, using examples from a wide range of professional domains.

The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance

The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
Author: K. Anders Ericsson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 31
Release: 2006-06-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1139456466

This book was the first handbook where the world's foremost 'experts on expertise' reviewed our scientific knowledge on expertise and expert performance and how experts may differ from non-experts in terms of their development, training, reasoning, knowledge, social support, and innate talent. Methods are described for the study of experts' knowledge and their performance of representative tasks from their domain of expertise. The development of expertise is also studied by retrospective interviews and the daily lives of experts are studied with diaries. In 15 major domains of expertise, the leading researchers summarize our knowledge on the structure and acquisition of expert skill and knowledge and discuss future prospects. General issues that cut across most domains are reviewed in chapters on various aspects of expertise such as general and practical intelligence, differences in brain activity, self-regulated learning, deliberate practice, aging, knowledge management, and creativity.

The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance

The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
Author: K. Anders Ericsson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 985
Release: 2018-05-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107137551

In this book, some of the world's foremost 'experts on expertise' provide scientific knowledge on expertise and expert performance.

Expert Performance in Sports

Expert Performance in Sports
Author: Janet L. Starkes
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780736041522

Grade level: 10, 11, 12, i, s, t.

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Author: Cognitive Science Society (US) Conference
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 1212
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317781600

This volume features the complete text of all regular papers, posters, and summaries of symposia presented at the 14th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Companion Encyclopedia of Psychology

Companion Encyclopedia of Psychology
Author: Andrew M. Colman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1401
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1136122524

Psychology plays an increasingly important role in today's society. Its influence can be seen all around us - be it in the home, the workplace, the school or our private lives. A uniquely diverse discipline, it ranges from social psychology to biological aspects of behaviour, and from basic research to the applied professions. This Companion Encyclopedia covers all these main branches of psychological research and professional practice. The thematic arrangement is the result of the Editor's extensive research into syllabi, from which he distilled the 13 most frequently taught units. Students can consult and be referred to sections relating to their lecture programme, and can find lucid definitions of frequently used terms in the Glossary. Headings and sub-headings are clearly highlighted at the beginning of each chapter - ideal for quick reference. * Provides authoritative and in-depth reference material on all major branches of psychological research and professional practice * Contributors include many of the world's most eminent psychologists * Written in a lively style without assuming previous knowledge of the subject * Structured according to the core topics appearing most often as discrete modules in contemporary psychology courses * Detailed bibliographies, further reading sections, exhaustive index and glossary of technical terms * Containing 165 supporting illustrations

The Oxford Handbook of Expertise

The Oxford Handbook of Expertise
Author: Paul Ward
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1298
Release: 2020
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198795874

The Oxford Handbook of Expertise provides a comprehensive picture of the field of Expertise Studies. It offers both traditional and contemporary perspectives, and importantly, a multidiscipline-multimethod view of the science and engineering research on expertise.

Expertise in Transition

Expertise in Transition
Author: Yrjö Engeström
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2018-08-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521404487

This book challenges standard notions of expertise. In today's world, truly effective expertise is built on fluid collaboration between practitioners from multiple backgrounds. Such collaborative expertise must also be transformative, must be able to tackle emerging new problems and changes in its organizational framework. Engeström argues that the transition toward collaborative and transformative expertise is based on three pillars: expertise needs to be understood and cultivated as a collective activity; expertise needs to be built on flexible knot-working among diverse practitioners; and expertise needs to be fostered as the expansive learning of models and patterns of activity that are in progress. In this book, Engeström recasts expertise as fluid collaboration on complex tasks that requires envisioning the future and mastering change.