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What Is an "Expert Student?"

Yale Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise (PACE Center), PO Box 208358, 340 Edwards Street, New Haven, CT 06511-3720; robert. sternberg{at}yale.edu. His research interests include the nature, assessment, and development of intelligence, creativity, and wisdom. He is the 2003 President of the American Psychological Association

This article suggests that conventional methods of teaching may, at best, create pseudo-experts—students whose expertise, to the extent they have it, does not mirror the expertise needed for real-world thinking inside or outside of the academic disciplines schools normally teach. It is suggested that teaching for "successful intelligence" may help in the creation of future experts. It is further suggested that we may wish to start teaching students to think wisely, not just well.

Educational Researcher, Vol. 32, No. 8, 5-9 (2003)
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X032008005


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