Development of Professional Expertise: Toward Measurement of Expert Performance and Design of Optimal Learning Environments

ISBN 10: 0521740088 / ISBN 13: 9780521740081

Published by Cambridge University Press June 2009, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Development of Professional Expertise: Toward Measurement of Expert Performance and Design of Optimal Learning Environments
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press June 2009
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521740088
• ISBN 13: 9780521740081
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: Used
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Synopsis

This book is designed to provide the first comprehensive overview of research on the acquisition and training of professional performance.

About the Author

K. Anders Ericsson, PhD, is presently Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University. For the last thirty years he has studied the development of expert performance in domains such as music, chess, medicine, business, and sports, and how expert performers attain their superior performance by acquiring complex cognitive mechanisms and physiological adaptations through extended deliberate practice. He has edited several books on expertise, such as Toward a General Theory of Expertise (1991), The Road to Excellence: The Acquisition of Expert Performance in the Arts and Sciences, Sports, and Games (1996), and the influential Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (2006). His research has been recently featured in New York Times, Scientific American, Fortune Magazine, New Scientist, and Time magazine. He is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association of Psychological Science, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.