Calculating Adaptive Expertise
Adaptive expertise is tied to the ability to transfer, that is, to apply knowledge to solving problems in a new context by recognizing the underlying similar concepts or principles that govern the given situation. A problem may be composed of factual knowledge, conceptual knowledge, and require transfer. One group of researchers looking specifically at the development of adaptive expertise in bioengineering operationalize adaptive expertise as the following:, based on experimental results, but they do not yet know if these weights are generalizable.
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