The Models of Skill Acquisition and Expertise Development: A Quick Reference of Summaries - Hardcover

Attri, Raman K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9811411301 ISBN 13: 9789811411304

Publisher: Speed To Proficiency Research: S2Pro©, 2022

Synopsis

The book offers condensed summaries of twenty-three major models of skill acquisition and expertise development presented by leading researchers during the last half a century of classic and new research. This book presents new researchers in learning, training, cognitive sciences or education disciplines with a big picture starting point for their literature review journey. The book presents an easy t understand taxonomy of twenty-three models which can give new researchers a good bird's eye view of existing models and theories, based on which they can decide which direction to dig further. The reviews in this book are complemented with over 200 authentic sources which a researcher read for detailed and deeper dive and set the direction for further exploration. This book would also act as an essential reference for training & learning professionals and instructional designers to design research-based training curriculum to develop skills of their staff.

Chapter 1 of the book elaborates on how the processes of learning, skill acquisition, and expertise development are interwoven. Chapter 2 presents a classification of various models reviewed in literature in five categories. Chapter 3 describes twelve models of skill and expertise acquisition which are represented in the form of stages. used frequently in learning, training and performance literature. The chapter also discusses the implications of each model toward developing skills and expertise of a less proficient individual to a higher level of proficiency briefly. Chapter 4 reviews practice-, time- or task-based models which are theories or models suggesting that acquisition of knowledge & skills, development of expertise and performance improvement is a function of nature of practice, amount of time spent on the task and task type. Chapter 5 presents the factor-based models, which are based on theories or models suggesting the interplay of several factors that influence the acquisition of knowledge & skills, development of expertise and performance improvement. Chapter 6 embarks on describing expert modeling-based models which are theories or models suggesting modeling an expert through elicitation or guidance for acquisition of knowledge & skills, development of expertise and performance improvement. Chapter 7 covers some newer movement toward cognition-based models which are theories or models focusing on mechanisms of cognition learning for the acquisition of knowledge & skills, development of expertise and performance improvement. Chapter 8 concludes the book by integrating views from various thought leaders to explain a famous staged skill acquisition model.

About this title

From the Back Cover

One-stop reference offering summarized reviews of 23 major models in learning, skill acquisition and expertise development
Raman K Attri is a corporate business researcher, learning strategist, and management consultant with a strong zeal to enable people to unravel human learning and performance. His international professional career spanned over 25 years across a range of disciplines such as scientific research, systems engineering, management consulting, training operations, academic & professional teaching, and learning design. He specializes in providing the competitive and strategic value to the organizations by accelerating time-to-proficiency of employees through well-researched models. He holds a doctorate in business from Southern Cross University, Australia.
This book originated from his doctorate research work. The book offers condensed summaries of twenty-three major models of skill acquisition and expertise development presented by leading researchers during the last half a century of classic and new research. 
This book enables three types of audience: 

• New researchers or research students in human performance, education, expertise, skill development, instructional design, cognitive sciences, learning theory, training design, and similar disciplines with a big picture starting point for their literature review journey.
• Academics or professors who are teaching courses or subjects in the above areas to recommend to their students to plan for detailed literature review.
•  Professional instructional designers, learning specialists, trainers, and consultants who are interested in designing and delivering their programs or training sessions based on the understanding of mechanisms of human performance improvement, the process of human skill acquisition and theories of expertise development.

The review is complemented with over 200 authentic sources which a researcher read for detailed and deeper dive and set the direction for further exploration.

About the Author

Dr. Raman K Attri is a corporate business researcher, learning strategist, and management consultant with a strong zeal to enable people to unravel human learning and performance. He holds a doctorate in business from Southern Cross University, Australia. He has authored over 12 books on management, leadership and performance. He specializes in providing the competitive and strategic value to the organizations by accelerating time-to-proficiency of employees through well-researched models. He is involved in research on the topic of speed to proficiency, accelerated performance and accelerated learning. A strong proponent of learning as the core of human success, he provides advisory on accelerated learning techniques which earned him over 60 educational credentials including doctorate degrees, three masters' degrees and tens of international certifications. Despite physical disability since childhood, he leveraged it to learn, research and test a range of "how to methods" to accelerate the rate of personal learning and professional performance at the workplace. He has published his methods in scholarly journals, blogs, books, and conferences. His international professional career spanned over 25 years across a range of disciplines such as scientific research, systems engineering, management consulting, training operations, professional teaching, and learning design. He also runs a non-profit consulting forum focused on researching strategies to accelerate speed to proficiency.

Edition details

• Publisher: Speed To Proficiency Research: S2Pro©
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 9811411301
• ISBN 13: 9789811411304
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160