Experts show rapid pattern recognition and instantaneous visceral decision-making, while novices rely on prolonged deliberate analysis that may lag events¶
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q2 i? Experts' assessing of classroom situations involves almost immediate pattern recognition with instantaneous, visceral decision-making, while novices' assessing is prolonged, deliberate analysis whose representations may arrive too late. → Charlotte E. Wolff 2020
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Charlotte E. Wolff 2020¶
Charlotte E. Wolff, Halszka Jarodzka, Henny P.A. Boshuizen. (2020). Classroom Management Scripts: a Theoretical Model Contrasting Expert and Novice Teachers' Knowledge and Awareness of Classroom Events. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09542-0
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This is the article's theoretical characterization (drawing on Eraut's mode-of-cognition account) of expertise differences in processing time. Novices, lacking knowledge structures for speedy assessment, revert to prolonged analysis and delayed interpretation of isolated pieces of information, missing other relevant information.
"Experts' assessing of classroom situations involves almost immediate pattern recognition, leading to rapid interpretations, and their scripts inform the immediate decision-making that is instantaneous and visceral, arising without deliberative thought"
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Related Claims¶
- Experts respond to classroom events predictively and proactively via precursor detection, while novices are either unaware or reactively aware — related
- Classroom events occur at different time scales requiring different modes of cognition — a broader claim this one bears on
- Experts detect and correct small changes before events become full-blown, while novices are distracted by possibly irrelevant phenomena — related
- Expert teachers' classroom perception appears knowledge-driven while novices' appears image-driven, guided by salient visual features — related
- Experts perceive classroom situations in terms of groups of students while novices devote more visual attention to individual students — related
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Experts show rapid pattern recognition and instantaneous visceral decision-making, while novices rely on prolonged deliberate analysis that may lag events |
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Experts show rapid pattern recognition and instantaneous visceral decision-making, while novices rely on prolonged deliberate analysis that may lag events |
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