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Expert Mental Model, Human Performance Technology, Novice Mental Model, Pathfinder, Performance Improvement

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The Mental Model Comparison Of Expert And Novice Performance Improvement Practitioners, Sacip Toker Jan 2012

The Mental Model Comparison Of Expert And Novice Performance Improvement Practitioners, Sacip Toker

Wayne State University Dissertations

The primary purpose of this study was to reveal performance improvement practitioner expert and novice mental models and identify differences and similarities between these models. The secondary purpose was to analyze the potential relationships of the professional profile characteristics of performance improvement practitioners with their mental model of expertise derived from Pathfinder scaling algorithm. The study was stemmed from one of the critical research trends in the field of Human Performance Technology (HPT).

There are two phases of the study. In the first round of the first phase, experts, who were selected based on several criteria, were contacted to identify …