Expert Modeling

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Description

Expert modeling is the element in which a skilled performer demonstrates not only what to do, but how an expert notices cues, makes decisions, and checks quality during performance. It is useful when learners need access to expert judgment that would otherwise remain tacit.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• A task with meaningful expert judgment
• Narration or annotation that reveals expert decision points

Constraints

• Experts may omit tacit moves unless prompted to make them explicit

Target Learning Goals

• Make expert reasoning visible and support transfer to learner performance.

Affordances

• Social Learning
• Explicit Instruction

Claims

Related Elements

• Modeling
• Demonstration
• Think-Aloud

Patterns That Use This Element

• Cognitive Apprenticeship
• Merrill's First Principles

Examples

• A clinician verbalizes why a particular diagnosis step matters while examining a case.

Key Sources

• Collins, A., Brown, J. S., & Newman, S. E. (1989). Cognitive apprenticeship: Teaching the crafts of reading, writing, and mathematics. In L. B. Resnick (Ed.), Knowing, learning, and instruction. Erlbaum. doi:10.4324/9781315044408-14

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