Traditionally, professional expertise has been judged by length of experience, reputation,
and perceived mastery of knowledge and skill. Unfortunately, recent research demonstrates …

This chapter reviews the effects on attained performance from engagement in different types
of domain-related activities, such as playing games, professional experience, solitary …

As a part of a special collection in this issue of Academic Medicine, which is focused on
mastery learning in medical education, this Perspective describes how the expert …

Contests are a historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging
innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to …

Abstract Twenty years ago, Ericsson, Krampe, and Tesch-Römer (1993) proposed that
expert performance reflects a long period of deliberate practice rather than innate ability, or …

In this updated and expanded edition of The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert
Performance, some of the world's foremost experts on expertise share their scientific …

The superior skills of experts, such as accomplished musicians and chess masters, can be
amazing to most spectators. For example, club-level chess players are often puzzled by the …

In this paper we present a model for computerized adaptive practice and monitoring. This
model is used in the Maths Garden, a web-based monitoring system, which includes a …

Giftedness researchers have long debated whether there is empirical evidence to support a
distinction between giftedness and attained level of achievement. In this paper we propose a …

Some researchers in sports attribute elite performance to genetic talent. However, they do
not offer complete genetic accounts that specify the causal processes involved in the …