Recent critiques of professionally oriented curricula and teaching pay particular attention to the disconnection between the formal knowledge and analytical techniques conveyed in programs and the messy, ill-structured nature of practice. At the same time the developing field of research into professional expertise suggests that the development of expertise requires bringing together different ...

Purpose: Second and foreign language (SL/FL) teachers’ informal problem-solving has received little explicit research attention while it is widely acknowledged that crucial to expertise development in any complex knowledge domain. To develop a clearer understanding of the role SL/FL development, this study investigated how experience (i.e. time on job) affects level schemata development.Design/...

This paper discusses the role of sustainability metrics in quality management in Library and Information Services (LIS), contributing to the ongoing debate by developing an integrated framework that offers an opportunity to measure sustainability value, influence and meaning of information services, and providing an illustrative example of LIS professionals and students discussion in Portugal. ...

Purpose – Although board expertise has been identified as an important determinant of board performance, some surveys are still reporting that the overall level of board expertise is insufficient to carry out current and emerging roles. Consequently, companies must ensure that board members have the required skills and knowledge. This study aims to examine three board processes aimed at develop...

Enhancing ways of developing students’ algebraic expertise remains an important focus for research. This paper reports on a design research study which involved a digital intervention for 17-18 year old students, implemented in nine schools in the Netherlands (N=324). For the intervention, algebra tasks for the conceptual and procedural components of algebraic expertise were placed in a sequenc...

Information Extraction methods can help discover critical knowledge buried in the vast repositories of unstructured clinical data. However, these methods are underutilized in clinical research, potentially due to the absence of free software geared towards clinicians with little technical expertise. The skills required for developing/using such software constitute a major barrier for medical re...