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Monday, 1 February 2010

Expert & Novice (Sharon)

chapter 2 How Experts Differ from Novices

I quoted this from page 19. It is talking about the differences between expert and novice:


We consider several key principles of experts' knowledge and their potential implications for learning and instruction:

1.

Experts notice features and meaningful patterns of information that are not noticed by novices.

2.

Experts have acquired a great deal of content knowledge that is organized in ways that reflect a deep understanding of their subject matter.

3.

Experts' knowledge cannot be reduced to sets of isolated facts or propositions but, instead, reflects contexts of applicability: that is, the knowledge is ''conditionalized" on a set of circumstances.

4.

Experts are able to flexibly retrieve important aspects of their knowledge with little attentional effort.

5.

Though experts know their disciplines thoroughly, this does not guarantee that they are able to teach others.

6.

Experts have varying levels of flexibility in their approach to new situations.