Education & Learning · The Science of Learning
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Deliberate Practice and Performance in Music, Games, Sports, Education, and Professions: A Meta-Analysis
Brooke N. Macnamara, David Z. Hambrick & Frederick L. Oswald · 2014
A meta-analysis across music, games, sports, education and the professions finds deliberate practice explains only a modest share of variance in…
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The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance
K. Anders Ericsson, Ralf Th. Krampe & Clemens Tesch-Römer · 1993
Proposes that reliably superior performance in a domain is built through years of deliberate practice, effortful and structured activity specifically…
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Brooke N. Macnamara, David Z. Hambrick & Frederick L. Oswald
A meta-analysis across music, games, sports, education and the professions finds deliberate practice explains only a modest share of variance in performance, directly contesting the stronger claim that practice alone accounts for expertise.
11 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026Brooke N. Macnamara & Megha Maitra
Reanalyses the original 1993 violinist study behind the deliberate-practice account of expertise and finds its own data show far more variation in accumulated practice time among elite performers than the original conclusions suggested.
13 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026K. Anders Ericsson, Ralf Th. Krampe & Clemens Tesch-Römer
Proposes that reliably superior performance in a domain is built through years of deliberate practice, effortful and structured activity specifically designed to improve performance, rather than through raw repetition or innate talent.
44 pagesK. Anders Ericsson & Neil Charness
Reviews evidence across domains that reliably superior performance is explained by accumulated years of structured, effortful practice rather than by fixed innate capacity.
23 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026