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. 2022 Dec;27(5):1245-1263.
doi: 10.1007/s10459-022-10190-y. Epub 2022 Dec 12.

Professionals' adaptive expertise and adaptive performance in educational and workplace settings: an overview of reviews

Els Pelgrim  1 , Elske Hissink  2 , Lotte Bus  3 , Marieke van der Schaaf  4 , Loek Nieuwenhuis  3 , Jan van Tartwijk  5 , Wietske Kuijer-Siebelink  6   3
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Professionals' adaptive expertise and adaptive performance in educational and workplace settings: an overview of reviews

Els Pelgrim et al. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2022 Dec.

Abstract

Professionals will increasingly be confronted with new insights and changes. This raises questions as to what kind of expertise professionals need, and how development of this expertise can be influenced within the contexts of both education and work. The terms adaptive expertise and adaptive performance are well-known concepts in the domains of education and Human Resource Development respectively. The literature, however, lacks a conceptual overview. Our research seeks to provide an overview on how adaptive expertise and adaptive performance are conceptualized. In addition we looked for what individual, task and organizational characteristics relate to adaptive expertise. We mined information drawn from existing reviews in an overview of reviews. Nine reviews met the inclusion criteria. Adaptive performance is best referred to as the visible expression of an adaptive expert and this is triggered by 'change'. The scope of this 'change' lies somewhere between change that is 'new for the learner' and change that is 'new for everyone in the whole world'. The extent to and way in which a learner or professional is able to deal with this change depends on the maturity of the learner or professional. We found numerous individual, task and environmental characteristics related to adaptive expertise and adaptive performance. The nature and relation of these characteristics, and their specificity in relation to adaptive expertise and adaptive performance are visualized in a figure, but also provide several suggestions for future research.

Keywords: Adaptive expertise; Adaptive performance; Learning of professionals; Overview of reviews.

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Figures

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Publication PRISMA Flow Diagram (Moher, 2010)
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Theoretical representation of the results (core concepts)
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Theoretical representation of the results, including characteristics of the job or learning tasks, individual characteristics and the work or learning environment
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References

    1. References with a * are the nine publications selected in the overview of reviews:
    1. Baard SK, Rench TA, Kozlowski SWJ. Performance adaptation: a theoretical integration and review. Journal of Management. 2013;40:48–99. doi: 10.1177/0149206313488210. - DOI
    1. * Bartone PT, Krueger GP, Bartone JV. Individual differences in adaptability to isolated, confined and extreme environment. Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance. 2018;89:538–546. doi: 10.3357/AMHP.4951.2018. - DOI - PubMed
    1. Bednall TC, Henricks MD. Adaptive performance: a review of managerial interventions. In: Al’Aali E, Masmoudi M, editors. Global perspectives on change management and leadership in the post-covid-19 era. Hershey: IGI-Global; 2021.
    1. * Bohle Carbonell, K., Stalmeijer, R. E., Könings, K. D., Segers, M., & van Merriënboer, J. J. G. (2014). How experts deal with novel situations: a review of adaptive expertise. Educational Research Review, 12, 14–29.

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