So I’m just starting on Accelerated Expertise and my god is this a heavy lift.
I’m going to leave these book screenshots here and see if anyone picks up on the bombshell implications.
- Teaching simplified concepts and then progressively complexifying is bad.
- Recall memory doesn't help with inferential understanding/advanced knowledge acquisition.
- So spaced repetition recall of facts are bad! (You need to promote 'adaptive schema assembly'.)
- Storehouse model of memory is bad (fact memorisation, practice + immediate feedback — bad)
- Cognitive load theory is true but not useful (experts operate with distractions).
- 'Learning advances (only?) when flawed mental models are replaced, stable when model is refined'
- 'Advanced learning is promoted by emphasising the interconnectedness of multiple cases and concepts along multiple dimensions, and use of multiple highly organised representations.' -> holy shit.
I might need to rethink what I know about expertise acquisition.
Word of warning if you want to read this: this was written for the Department of Defence, and is intended for other org psychologists and military training program designers. It assumes you have a background in existing expertise research.
It is not written for the layperson.
The context (as I understand it) is more “you’ve spent years developing training programs that accelerate expertise acquisition for various military/org/business applications for us, please tell us what you know before the knowledge vanishes with you.”