📝🔬 What does it mean to “master” the skill of creatively manipulating understandings in novel situations?
New on our team blog, some working thoughts on the intersection of mastery learning and creative tasks:
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Great stuff! Love the way y’all think about this. The Knowledge Components idea in the Knowledge-Learning-Instruction framework out of CMU (by Ken Koedinger and colleagues) might be helpful way to think about chunks, synthesis, difficulty, and transfer.
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I’m also reminded of the notion of Adaptive Expertise. Happy to chat more and/or connect you to others who’ve been thinking a lot about mastery and transfer from cognitive science perspective!
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fair to assume you're only interested in assessments that can be automated? Just reading in between the lines of the examples. I have some thoughts but just want to make sure they are relevant!
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Really interested in any thoughts you might have!
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This is thought provoking- thanks for writing it up Andy! Do you think that creative tasks have clear standards? If so, that might hint as to what mastery looks like. If not, can we ever truly master them?
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Sometimes! For instance, CCSS.MP3 asks students to create viable arguments. But some of these tasks are more about taking an existing standard (knowledge of triangle properties) and using it with more depth, e.g. in an unfamiliar context. What do you think?