Domain Specific Expertise

Expertise and domain specific knowledge.

Domain specific expertise. Evidence from nonsurgical domains early evidence for the domain specificity of expertise came from studies comparing clinical reasoning among experts and novices 32 33 where the particular experiential history with different cases determined widely the different competence profiles within the same physician. That is knowledge relevant to a certain domain. The skills knowledge and attributes linked to the leadership management of a specific field.

John baer 2015 the importance of domain specific expertise in creativity r oeper r eview 37 3 165 178 doi. Researchers have been in constant debate about whether face recognition was a special mechanism that is different from the recognition of other objects the domain specificity hypothesis or whether it was a general one that responds to face stimuli the same way it does to on non face stimuli the expertise hypothesis. One of the most commonly cited examples of a domain specific competence is the human ability to recognize upright faces.

An implication of domain specific leadership is that school leaders should develop deep educational expertise in areas such as curriculum or teacher development because leading a school is very different to leading a hospital or a library. Expertise does not usually require creativity but creativity generally does require a certain level of expertise. The domain specificity advocate claim that faces contrary to non face objects are processed holistically and that specialized cognitive and neural functioning in the.

10 1080 02783193 2015 1047480 t o link to this article. The term is often used in reference to a more general discipline as for example in describing a software engineer who has general knowledge of programming as well as domain knowledge about the pharmaceutical industry. A situation or class of problems.

For example our research found that though ct is domain general in theory domain specific scenarios in which ct is required is facilitated by matching domain specific expertise. Domain specific knowledge is what makes an expert an expert. Research has shown that just as expertise in one domain does not predict expertise in other unrelated domains creativity in one domain.

Domain specificity is a theoretical position in cognitive science especially modern cognitive development that argues that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized presumably evolutionarily specified learning devices. There are similarities in the relationships of both expertise and creativity to domains however. An expert is a person with extensive knowledge about a particular subject matter or area of expertise.