Building Expertise: Cogitive Methods for Training and Performance Improvement

By Ruth Colvin Clark

Book Overview

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. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890289132
• ISBN13: 9781890289133
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Pfeiffer
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"