Browsing by Subject "expertise"

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    Authority in Digital Space: Exploring the Case of the Green Pea Galaxy
    (2020-07) Kays, Trent
    The Green Pea Galaxy was discovered by a group of Zooniverse discussion forum users in 2007. This dissertation investigates the rhetorical moves and motives of the discussion forum users who discovered the galaxy and how those nonexpert users constructed authority and expertise within the discussion forum to develop criteria for assessing their own discovery outside traditionally trained experts.
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    Mapping expertise and improving communication in the HelpAge global network
    (Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 2013-07-24) Ranjan, Priya; Goyal, Rakesh; Khajuria, Narinder; Roy, Shyama Prasad
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    The role of growth mindset in motivating novice persistence: how experts bounce back after failure
    (2022-12) Ristani, Gina
    Experts become experts partly because of their willingness to engage in thousands of hours of deliberate practice. What motivates this persistence despite constant failure? This question was addressed in a study replicated from Chase (2013) of experts in the domains of mathematics and English literature enrolled at a U.S. university (N = 40, 23 mathematics and 17 English experts). We investigated their persistence when tackling challenging tasks in their domain of expertise and the domain in which they were novices. Different patterns in experts’ verbalized failure attributions for their in-domain task and their out-domain task were explained by the implicit theory of intelligence individuals held. These findings indicate experts’ failure attributions and growth mindset may bolster persistence when tackling challenging problems in their domains. Future research might explore whether interventions encouraging a growth mindset may motivate novices to persist even after repeated failures on the path to expertise.
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    Transforming the University: Preliminary Report of the Knowledge Management Technology Task Force
    (University of Minnesota, 2006-03-27) Olson, Debra; Perkowski, Linda
    The deliverable generated by the Knowledge Management Task Force is a plan for an Academic Health Center knowledge management system that is supported by technology, is continually assessed, and is delivered within a culture comprised of specific, supportive features.