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Adaptive Expertise
PRESENTED BY:
Dr. Helen Taylor Martin
Assistant Professor & SME Graduate Advisor
The College of Education
OVERVIEW:
We teach our students far more than engineering content for we are also
guiding them as learners. Yet we realize that in school, we often assess student
skills that are the easiest to measure. Yet what about the skills they need to
use knowledge flexibly and adaptively? These adaptive thinking skills have
become of particular interest to not only cognitive scientists, but also to
engineering professors. Engineers are expected to creatively use their expertise
and there is considerable interest that engineering students be taught how to
more effectively apply and adapt their learning. In this seminar, Dr. Helen
Taylor Martin of The College of Education, will provide an overview of adaptive
expertise and look at why it is relevant to address it in your curriculum. From
her years of teaming with BME faculty, she will share some of their research
findings on the effectiveness of adapted expertise instruction and will also
give some insights on what you should consider as you think about how your
students learn and what you can do to help facilitate their learning.
BIO:
Taylor Martin received a B. A. in Linguistics and an initial teaching
certification from Dartmouth College in 1992, an M.S. in Psychology from
Vanderbilt University in 2000, and a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University
in 2003. She joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 2003.
Her primary research interest is how people learn content in complex domains
from active participation, both physical and social. She is cooperating with
local elementary schools to improve assessment tools for young children's
mathematics and to examine how hands-on activities impact mathematics learning
and investigating the development of adaptive expertise through cooperation with
the VaNTH Engineering Research Center in Bioengineering Educational
Technologies.