Novice Expert Gap by

Using discipline or academic jargon novices may not know

egzerrenner — 2025-09-18 16:10:50 UTC

cmboyce07 — 2025-09-18 16:11:04 UTC

the knowledge and skill differential between topic/subject learners and people who have been immersed in the topic/subject for a significant amount of time

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Using jargon and assuming it is understood.

Expert Novice Gap

ebufford1 — 2025-09-18 16:11:04 UTC

Lack of the expert's ability to relate to the novice's needs due to the expert's own knowledge and lack of connection.

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the distance between understanding of a topic/concept/field from an expert practitioner and the novice - someone completely new to that topic/concept/field

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the bridge between what we know as professionals and assume our students know but in reality may or may not know what information your talking about

Asking students to complete assignments they haven't been taught the skills for

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Building blocks.

2025-09-18 16:11:13 UTC

In my understanding, the expert-novice gap is the distance that grows with expertise that makes it more difficult to effectively teach newer learners in a certain field

2025-09-18 16:11:14 UTC

I know it especially from the chapter in How People Learn - the fact that experts in an area have developed methods for encoding and grouping information in a discipline so as to learn and remember more efficiently

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Defining what “expert” means seems challenging with ever evolving AI technology

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Experts know and love their area of study - do not always know how to break it down for students.

My Understanding of the Expert-Novice Gap

2025-09-18 16:11:23 UTC

I am an MSLS student and do not have a great understanding of the details of the gap, although I have some ideas.

I think of teaching faculty/instructors vs. teaching ug/grad students

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Assumptions about what a student "should" know about the field.

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using more advanced websites/ databases that aren't widely known

Novice expert gap--what is it?

2025-09-18 16:11:30 UTC

I think about the ways someone familiar with a subject forgets that others might not know what they do

Lack of understanding of the complexities of core concepts and the implications of fundamentals

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What I know, but they don't know

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Novice

2025-09-18 16:11:32 UTC

Novice is someone who is new to a topic or software or searching technique. Expert is has some familiarity with above skills

expert - novice gap

oaks9_1 — 2025-09-18 16:11:32 UTC

students would be at a different skill level than a professor.

What is your understanding of the expert-novice gap?

2025-09-18 16:11:35 UTC

the divide in knowledge levels between professors and students for example.

2025-09-18 16:11:41 UTC

difference between experienced and beginner approach to problem solving

hedreenr1 — 2025-09-18 16:11:41 UTC

The difference between what novices actually know and what experts think everyone knows.

2025-09-18 16:11:43 UTC

the difference in knowledge between someone who has been in the relevant field for long and someone who is new or relatively new to the field

being unaware of the necessary assumptions and foundations needed to convey and understand complex ideas

2025-09-18 16:11:43 UTC

cognitive apprenticeship

2025-09-18 16:11:46 UTC

I think of it as new learners not being aware of the thought processes that we go through when taking seemingly simple actions.

The gap in the knowledge and skills between someone considered an expert in a field vs. a beginner. Essentially, it relates to experience.

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Novice Expert Gap

wordofak — 2025-09-18 16:11:53 UTC

the difference between the knowledge level of novice and expert in the discipline

2025-09-18 16:11:55 UTC

Using Virginia Tucker's search expertise model, novice is someone who is in a liminal space, not crossed the threshold in understanding disciplinary concepts

I know nothing about this - what comes to mind is the "Sage on the stage" idea - not being aware of what others don't know

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Experts don't always understand the skills they've developed in learning their content and can't share those with novices.

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Assuming subject knowledge, assuming someone is an expert already

differences in knowledge and application of a topic

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Gap in knowledge and practices or research methods.

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Often, professors / university will assume students know more than they might actually understand, and then not bother to explain the specifics that they expect.

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People who give directions like, "go to where the toyota dealership used to be" to someone new in town.

Great Difference

cconnery4 — 2025-09-18 16:12:14 UTC

The difference in expertise on a certain area. A bridge between those who can navigate a concept more confidently and those who are barely familiar with it.

2025-09-18 16:12:15 UTC

experts have accumulated knowledge over time that they now take for granted. Students need explicit instruction in these things (like experts in the field, important journals) in order to "catch up" and grow in the discipline.

2025-09-18 16:12:19 UTC

Difficulty for experts to put themselves back in a novice mindset

expert novice gap

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experts are more comfortable accepting there are items they may not know and understand ways to start looking for domain-specific knowledge

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Expecting the novice to know what to ask or who to ask.

forgetting what it's like

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the expert has been in that specialty for so long they forget what it's like to not know anything about foundational comcepts

An expert knows enough about the topic to know where their own knowledge gaps exist. Sometimes a novice assumes they know more about a topic because we don't know how vast our misunderstandings are!

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Can be an opportunity for sharing, teaching, learning, but is often used as a way of gatekeeping, keeping novices out

Research

2025-09-18 16:17:13 UTC

gaps with language.

some students have no experience in the lab and don't have knowledge of the most basic tools such as a manometer

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