Education & Learning · The Science of Learning
A topic within The Science of Learning, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Education & Learning.
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Michelene T. H. Chi, Paul J. Feltovich & Robert Glaser
Experts sort physics problems by the deep principle that solves them while novices sort by surface features, showing that expertise is the possession of organised schemas rather than more facts.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Robert Glaser & Michelene T. H. Chi
Surveys what a decade of expert-novice research had by then established: that expertise is organised, principle-based knowledge rather than raw quantity of facts, and that this organisation is what novices lack even when they know the same individual facts.
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