Expert-Novice Gap by

nicolewesterdahl — 2025-02-13 17:08:48 UTC

How experts understand research in their discipline vs. how novices understand research in their discipline (and the communication challenges that result!)

Being a tourist in a land of citizens

williambadke — 2025-02-13 17:08:50 UTC

Being able to recognize what resources you need versus being lost with where you should start

2025-02-13 17:08:59 UTC

barriers

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expert jargon, not understanding of novice needs

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experts have knowledge of the discipline such as resources while novices may not

2025-02-13 17:09:06 UTC

The process of becoming an expert so changes your thinking that it becomes hard to think like a novice and explain things in a way that makes sense to a novice.

Expert-Novice Gap

2025-02-13 17:09:07 UTC

The majority of people that are intermediate users/learners.

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People who are instructing are often experts in their field, so they forget how to instruct people who have zero knowledge

library508 — 2025-02-13 17:09:15 UTC

the difference between the skill set of experienced researchers vs. those who are at the early stages of their research journey

Expert Novice Gap

2025-02-13 17:09:24 UTC

Not familiar with it's formal definition but think I see it in practice (or not practice)

Expert-Novice Gap

2025-02-13 17:09:25 UTC

I think of this gap as primarily dialogic and linguistic (as demonstrated by these very terms). Why don't we talk like our students?

2025-02-13 17:09:27 UTC

The distance between how a new entrant to a discipline understands its convents and how an expert understands it - may apply to research as well as disciplinary knowledge?

2025-02-13 17:09:28 UTC

Expert Novice gap is the space that differentiates someone knowledgeable in a topic versus new to a topic. the gap could be for a variety of reasons like good resources, how to find them, etc.

The difference between how an expert understands their field (deep knowledge) and how a new scholar understands the field (surface knowledge)

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Space between learning and well-understood

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different languages/terminology

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What experts know and understand versus what folks who are still learning the concepts know and understand.

2025-02-13 17:09:37 UTC

Experts are not aware how much faster they may be able to find resources/ solve problems versus a novice

2025-02-13 17:09:38 UTC

Experts know stuff practically instinctively due to their expertise and don't remember what it was like when they were novices and didn't know the stuff.

Expert-novice gap

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Before and after crossing the threshold of key disciplinary concepts

Expert is comfortable in task novice is frustrated

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the balance between what you can teach others and what you can learn from others.

Gap

2025-02-13 17:09:52 UTC

The gap happens when we have those areas of hidden knowledge as experiential we forget to teach to those wanting to become experts. So figuring out how to navigate that gap is a way to become an expert.

Expectations & assumptions

2025-02-13 17:10:01 UTC

Experts forget what they learned and how they learned it. So, they tend to assume novices have the same background as them, when years have past since the expert learned. The expert also assumes novices know more than they do and expect them to know and do more than novices can.

2025-02-13 17:10:03 UTC

I imagine this refers to all the things that experts have learned over their years of study and training that they forget novices don't yet know, and therefore can gloss over when teaching.

zz8daniel — 2025-02-13 17:10:05 UTC

The knowledge that novice researchers/students don't have that an expert has.

2025-02-13 17:10:10 UTC

Being able to take basic skills in research and apply them to the specific requirements of a discipline.

2025-02-13 17:10:12 UTC

it is often difficult for experts to understand how to explain or teach novices because they have different levels of understanding

The range between knowing a lot about a topic and knowing very little.

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understanding discipline practices, citation styles, where and how to find resources

Experts have different mental models

2025-02-13 17:10:48 UTC

Experts have already encoded information into mental models, and it can be hard to teach the mental models, as well as the content.

2025-02-13 17:10:52 UTC

The difference between the way that people with a lot of expertise and experience in a topic think about it vs. someone who is new to it

2025-02-13 17:11:18 UTC

Lack of awareness of learners' ways of understanding