Educational Implications of Expertise Reversal Effects in Learning and Performance of Complex Cognitive and Sensorimotor Skills

Educational Psychology Review

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 313-337

  Kalyuga, Slava ^a   Rikers, Remy ^b   Paas, Fred ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention focusing in execution of complex sensorimotor skills; Cognitive load theory; Encapsulation theory of medical expertise; Expertise reversal effect; Explicit monitoring effect; Intermediate effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860488919     PISSN: 1040726X     EISSN: 1573336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10648-012-9195-x     Document Type: Review

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