Clinical practice, deliberate practice, and “big data”

Facing facts about deliberate practice

More than 20 years ago, Ericsson and colleagues proposed that “individual differences in ultimate performance can largely be accounted for by differential amounts of past and current levels of practice” (Ericsson et al., 1993, p. 392). We empirically tested this claim through a metaanalysis of studies of music and chess (Hambrick et al., 2014). The claim was not supported. Deliberate practice a...

How experts practice: a novel test of deliberate practice theory.

Performance improvement is thought to occur through engagement in deliberate practice. Deliberate practice is predicted to be challenging, effortful, and not inherently enjoyable. Expert and intermediate level Gaelic football players executed two types of kicks during an acquisition phase and pre-, post-, and retention tests. During acquisition, participants self-selected how they practiced and...

The Relationship between Course Experience and Deliberate Practice Study Approach among Nursing Students

Introduction: Approaches to studying include explicit and implicit thoughts and behaviors which could be modified by educational interventions. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between course experience and deliberate practice study approach among nursing students in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This descriptive-correlational study was performed o...

Developing Expertise Through a Deliberate Practice Project

Big graphs : Theory and Practice

Learning hidden communities in networks is a problem that has applications in numerous domains such as social networks, national security and computational biology. Mixed membership models relax the assumption that a node belongs to a single community, but are harder to train. Popular approaches such as variational inference or Gibbs sampling are not scalable to large datasets and do not have g...