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Development of professional expertise : toward measurement of expert performance and design of optimal learning environments / edited by K. Anders Ericsson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Expertise.
- Professional employees.
- Performance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 552 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1. The measurement and development of professional performance: an introduction to the topic and a background to the design and origin of this Book
- Section 1. Challenges in past and contemporary efforts to measure and train the objective performance of professionals
- Section 2. Past and contemporary measures to design instruction, train and maintain professional performance
- Section 3. The assessment and training of skilled and expert performers in the military
- Section 4. The development of expertise and expert performance.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-19170-X
- 0-521-74008-8
- 0-511-65104-X
- 0-511-59300-7
- 0-511-59207-8
- 0-511-59493-3
- OCLC:
- 609842994
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