Professionals’ adaptive expertise and adaptive performance in educational and workplace settings. An overview of reviews

Els Pelgrim, Elske Hissink*, Lotte Bus, Marieke van der Schaaf, Loek Nieuwenhuis, Jan van Tartwijk, Wietske Kuijer-Siebelink

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Abstract

Professionals will increasingly be confronted with new insights and changes. This raises questions as to what kind of expertise professionals need, and how development of this expertise can be influenced within the contexts of both education and work. The terms adaptive expertise and adaptive performance are well-known concepts in the domains of education and Human Resource Development respectively. The literature, however, lacks a conceptual overview. Our research seeks to provide an overview on how adaptive expertise and adaptive performance are conceptualized. In addition we looked for what individual, task and organizational characteristics relate to adaptive expertise. We mined information drawn from existing reviews in an overview of reviews. Nine reviews met the inclusion criteria. Adaptive performance is best referred to as the visible expression of an adaptive expert and this is triggered by ‘change’. The scope of this ‘change’ lies somewhere between change that is ‘new for the learner’ and change that is ‘new for everyone in the whole world’. The extent to and way in which a learner or professional is able to deal with this change depends on the maturity of the learner or professional. We found numerous individual, task and environmental characteristics related to adaptive expertise and adaptive performance. The nature and relation of these characteristics, and their specificity in relation to adaptive expertise and adaptive performance are visualized in a figure, but also provide several suggestions for future research.

Original languageEnglish
Number of pages19
JournalAdvances in Health Sciences Education
Volume27
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Dec 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was funded by NRO, the Netherlands Initiative for Education Research.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).

Funding

This research was funded by NRO, the Netherlands Initiative for Education Research.

Keywords

  • Adaptive expertise
  • Adaptive performance
  • Learning of professionals
  • Overview of reviews

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