Cognitive Task Analysis

Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 577-593

  Clark, Richard E ^a   Feldon, David F ^b   van Merriënboer, Jeroen J G ^c   Yates, Kenneth A ^a   Early, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automated knowledge: About how to do something; with repetition, it operates outside of conscious awareness and executes much faster than conscious processes.; Cognitive task analysis: Interview and observation protocols for extracting implicit and explicit knowledge from experts for use in instruction and expert systems.; Complex tasks: Tasks where performance requires the integrated use of both controlled and automated knowledge to perform tasks that often extend over many hours or days.; Declarative knowledge: Knowledge about what or why; hierarchically structured; formatted as propositional, episodic, or visuospatial information that is accessible in long term memory and consciously observable in working memory.; Subject matter expert (SME): A person with extensive experience who is able to perform a class of tasks rapidly and successfully.

Indexed keywords

EID: 85144969482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203880869-48     Document Type: Chapter

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