Building Expertise
Cognitive Methods for Training and Performance Improvement
3. Edition October 2008
512 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
Building expertise is a key source of competitive advantage in the knowledge economy. Building Expertise meets this challenge by providing a guide for instructional designers, course developers, and technical communicators interested in using research-based psychological theory to build effective training materials. Clark summarizes cognitive theories concerning working memory, long-term memory, and attention and describes instructional methods for each. This new edition contains an updated review of relevant research from cognitive and instructional design fields, revised practical guidelines for problem-centered instruction, motivation, transfer, and new action-oriented examples.
Building Expertise
This third edition of the classic resource, Building Expertise draws on the most recent evidence on how to build innovative forms of expertise and translates that evidence into guidelines for instructional designers, course developers and facilitators, technical communicators, and other human performance professionals. Ruth Colvin Clark summarizes psychological theories concerning ways instructional methods support human learning processes. Filled with updated research and new illustrative examples, this new edition offers trainers evidence-based guidelines to help them accelerate genuine expertise within their organizations. This new edition includes
Eight instructional principles that can accelerate expertise
Four instructional architectures to serve as design templates
The most current research on how to develop learning that is both motivational and instructionally sound
Completely updated review of relevant research from cognitive and instructional design fields
Practical guidelines for problem-centered instruction, motivation, and transfer
Information on how to exploit the features of new technology in ways that support human learning processes
Praise for the Third Edition of Building Expertise
"Accelerating the development of expertise is crucial to organizations' ability to thrive in today's global economy. With sound theoretical framework and immediately applicable guidelines, Building Expertise is a must-read for every serious performance improvement professional."
-Rosaline Tsai, Ph.D., global training director, Honeywell Building Solutions
"Building Expertise synthesizes research into accessible design principles that can be easily applied to a broad range of instruction including eLearning and other innovative technologies."
-Frank Nguyen, Ph.D, assistant professor, Department of Educational Technology, San Diego State University
PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF BUILDING EXPERTISE.
Chapter 1: Expertise in the Global Economy.
Chapter 2: Four Ingredients of Instruction.
Chapter 3: No Yellow Brick Road.
Chapter 4: The Psychology of Building Expertise.
PART II: BASIC LEARNING EVENTS PROVEN TO BUILD EXPERTISE.
Chapter 5: How Working Memory Works.
Chapter 6: Managing Cognitive Load.
Chapter 7: Managing Attention.
Chapter 8: Leveraging Prior Knowledge.
Chapter 9: Helping Learners Build Mental Models: Implicit Methods.
Chapter 10: Explicit Methods for Helping Learners Build Mental Models.
Chapter 11: Learning Versus Performance: The Psychology of Transfer.
Chapter 12: Teaching for Transfer.
PART III: PROMOTING ADAPTIVE EXPERTISE AND MOTIVATION.
Chapter 13: Problem-Centered Instruction.
Chapter 14: Metacognitive, Self-Regulation and Adaptive Expertise.
Chapter 15: Motivation and Expertise.
Chapter 16: Motivating Your Learners.
PART IV: BUILDING EXPERTISE IN ACTION.
Chapter 17: Practical Applications in Building Expertise.
A Final Word.
Glossary.
References.
Index.
About the Author.