The expertise reversal effect reflects the strength of experts' knowledge base resisting redundant external information, and a motivation-related form is predicted¶

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q1 i? From the evolutionary perspective, the expertise reversal effect indicates that experts' knowledge base resists interference from redundant external information, and activities designed to foster motivation and engagement could similarly inhibit expert performance. → Kalyuga 2023

Evidence¶

Kalyuga 2023¶

Kalyuga, S. (2023). Evolutionary Perspective on Human Cognitive Architecture in Cognitive Load Theory: a Dynamic, Emerging Principle Approach. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09812-7

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Theoretical interpretation offered in the paper's implications section: expert performance ideally relies only on the information store and environmental organizing and linking principles, with the other principles suppressed. The paper states this motivation-related form of the expertise reversal effect "needs to be experimentally investigated in future studies".

"From the evolutionary perspective, the expertise reversal effect indicates the role and strength of experts' knowledge base that resists interference from external information (which is essentially becomes redundant) as expressed in the reduced levels of experts' performance"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Prior Knowledge — moderator: an instructional effect differs with it

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• Embedded explanatory notes improved Shakespearean text comprehension for novice readers but reversed for experts — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Reviews report that the split-attention benefit for novices reverses into a redundancy effect for more experienced learners: Kalyuga et al. (2003) cite Kalyuga et al. (1998) and Yeung et al. (1998), and Ginns (2006) cites Kalyuga et al. (1998) — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• The worked example effect holds for the schema-acquisition goal, but other instructional goals may be better served by other means — related
• Representation-alignment tension between expert externalization and novice comprehension — related