Studying Expertise

This course offers an overview of ways that psychologists and learning scientists characterize knowledge, learning, and expertise. We will look at general models of knowledge representation (e.g. as a set of scripts, as socially mediated, as embodied), and knowledge representation in specific domains (e.g playing chess, solving math problems, waiting tables, or constructing literary interpretations), as well as in teaching. As a course project, you will build your own comparative study of expert and novice thinking in a domain that interests you and create an AERA style proposal and presentation to share findings.