Accelerating the Acquisition of Intuitive Decision Making Through Expertise-Based Training (XBT)

• In Event: Poster Session 12
  In Poster Session: Issues in Technology, Instruction, Cognition, and Learning

Abstract

Expert performers often exhibit an uncanny ability to size up dynamic situations and to make good, fast, and largely unconscious decisions. These performers’ cognitive processes can appear, to the performers as well as to observers, to be intuitive. This paper describes the instructional design theory of Expertise-Based Training (XBT) as a way to systematically train intuitive decision-making. In particular, XBT targets the recognition component of Gary Klein’s Recognition-Primed Decision-Making (RPD) model. Recognition skills such as selective attention, pattern recognition, and situation awareness are targeted as a way of accelerating expertise in performance contexts ranging from sports to classroom teaching.

Author

• Peter Fadde, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale