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Unstructured expert interviews miss up to 70% of the subtasks needed to describe a cognitive task

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q1 i? Expert interviews are often incomplete and may miss up to 70% of the subtasks needed to describe a specific cognitive task for teaching purposes. → Graham LA 2023

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Graham LA 2023

Graham LA, Gray C, Wagner TH, Illarmo S, Hawn MT, Wren SM, Iannuzzi J, Harris AHS. (2023). Applying cognitive task analysis to health services research. Health Services Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.14106

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The article reports, citing Sullivan et al., that expert interviews are often incomplete, resulting in biased or incomplete information about the knowledge required to complete a task. No effect size is printed; the article offers this as motivating background for CTA.

"Many miss up to 70% of the subtasks (or “steps”) needed to describe a specific cognitive task for teaching purposes."

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id expert-interviews-miss-up-to-70-percent-subtasks
title Unstructured expert interviews miss up to 70% of the subtasks needed to describe a cognitive task
description Unstructured expert interviews miss up to 70% of the subtasks needed to describe a cognitive task
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 2023
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-16
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