Contents: Preface. K.A. Ericsson, The Acquisition of Expert Performance: An Introduction to Some of the Issues. N. Charness, R. Krampe, U. Mayr, The Role of Practice and Coaching in Entrepreneurial Skill Domains: An International Comparison of Life-Span Chess Skill Acquisition. J.L. Starkes, J.M. Deakin, F. Allard, N.J. Hodges, A. Hayes, Deliberate Practice in Sports: What Is It Anyway? J.A. Sloboda, The Acquisition of Musical Performance Expertise: Deconstructing the "Talent" Account of Individual Differences in Musical Expressivity. V.L. Patel, D.R. Kaufman, S.A. Magder, The Acquisition of Medical Expertise in Complex Dynamic Environments. H.B. Richman, F. Gobet, J.J. Staszewski, H.A. Simon, Perceptual and Memory Processes in the Acquisition of Expert Performance: The EPAM Model. R.K. Wagner, K.E. Stanovich, Expertise in Reading. D.K. Simonton, Creative Expertise: A Life-Span Developmental Perspective. M.J.A. Howe, The Childhoods and Early Lives of Geniuses: Combining Psychological and Biographical Evidence. E. Winner, The Rage to Master: The Decisive Role of Talent in the Visual Arts. R. Glaser, Changing the Agency for Learning: Acquiring Expert Performance. F.L. Holmes, Expert Performance and the History of Science. J.B. Shea, G. Paull, Capturing Expertise in Sports. R.M. Shiffrin, Laboratory Experimentation on the Genesis of Expertise. R.J. Sternberg, Costs of Expertise.
K. Anders Ericsson
"...an impressive assemblage of expertise....useful to interested
researchers."
—Contemporary Psychology"The Road to Excellence signals the
emergence of an exciting and important new chapter in the study of
extraordinariness. As distinct from such rubrics as creativity,
giftedness, talent, intelligence and genius, the focus here is on
experimental and field studies of expert performance in diverse
fields: music, chess, figure skating, wrestling, golf, medicine,
perception, memory, and reading. While each field raises its own
conceptual and methodological problems, most of the authors agree
with Ericsson's central finding of the profoundly transformative
power of prolonged, well-thought out and well coached 'deliberate
practice.' This book is a must-read for anyone interested in how
people come to do their best."
—Howard E. Gruber
Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Teachers
College Columbia"This volume contains an interesting description of
the development of expert performance in a variety of fields. It is
a balanced collection; advocates of the view that experts are born
and that experts are made both have their say. Readers will obtain
a good picture of how modern scientific psychologists view
expertise. The book will be a valuable reference for anyone
interested in human cognition."
—Earl Hunt
Professor of Psychology, University of Washington"This is
psychology at its best: employing data from both laboratory and
natural environments, using both contentious and provocative ideas.
I recommend it highly. Researchers, teachers, parents, mentors and
coaches--everyone interested in the development of high levels of
talent--will learn much from this book."
—David Berliner
Regents' Professor of Education, Arizona State University
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