Faculty development strategies for overcoming the &amp;#x201C;curse of knowledge&amp;#x201D;

Froyd, Jeffrey E.; Layne, J. Gregg

doi:10.1109/fie.2008.4720529

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“…in teaching and learning (Bjork & Bjork, ). Students also played a “Tappers and Listeners” game that demonstrated the “curse of knowledge,” a cognitive bias that occurs when experts or individuals with more knowledge of a situation assume that novices understand and have access to the same knowledge (Froyd & Layne, ). The “curse of knowledge” is a roadblock to effective communication during teaching and learning, as teachers may have a difficult time placing themselves in the position of the learner (i.e., the presenters assume that K‐12 students have the same scientific background knowledge and try to present their topic with materials and explanations geared toward undergraduate neuroscience majors).…”

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Quantitative assessments reveal improved neuroscience engagement and learning through outreach

Saravanapandian

Sparck

Cheng

et al. 2019

J of Neuroscience Research

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Lack of resources and exposure to neuroscience in K-12 education has resulted in a limited number of K-12 students pursuing higher education in the field. Meanwhile, the rapid expansion of the field of neuroscience has encouraged many higher educational institutes to offer neuroscience majors. This has opened up the opportunity to engage faculty, as well as graduate and undergraduate students in bringing the most needed knowledge and awareness about neuroscience into K-12 classrooms.However, undergraduate neuroscience curricula have limited formal opportunities to engage in outreach, and few existing programs have assessments to determine their effectiveness. To address these needs, we developed quantitative assessment tools that complement an existing neuroscience outreach program-Project Brainstormat the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). 29 UCLA undergraduates enrolled in the 2016 and 2017 programs participated in this study, along with 298 K-12 students from local schools across the Los Angeles area. In undergraduate students, we assessed (a) improvement in students' teaching/communication abilities across the course of the outreach program, and (b) confidence in explaining neuroscience topics and interest in pursuing teaching career. In K-12 students, we evaluated (a) knowledge gain in neuroscience topics and (b) interest in pursuing higher education.Overall, Project Brainstorm showed significant improvement in all the

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Quantitative assessments reveal improved neuroscience engagement and learning through outreach

Saravanapandian

Sparck

Cheng

et al. 2019

J of Neuroscience Research

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“…Additionally, academic physicians communicate with trainees in clinical and classroom settings, in scientific meetings and in courtrooms as expert witnesses 2 . In these contexts, a physician's deep knowledge of medicine may paradoxically limit his or her ability to communicate effectively with others, a phenomenon known as the ‘curse of knowledge’ 4 . This is especially problematic when physicians proceed with asking diagnostically focused questions and conveying medical knowledge prior to sufficiently exploring a patient's knowledge and beliefs about his or her own illness, health and cultural beliefs 5 .…”

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Teaching public speaking to medical students

Nie

Torabi

Peck

et al. 2020

The Clinical Teacher

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“…If the venture is based on complex and highly specialized knowledge, as is often the case with science-based ventures, the likelihood of communication difficulties increases (Miozzo and DiVito 2018). In such a context, an entrepreneurial team's deep knowledge of a particular technological domain may paradoxically limit the team's ability to communicate effectively with potential resource providers, a phenomenon known as "the curse of knowledge" (Froyd and Layne 2008;Leunbach et al 2019). Indeed, the history of science is replete with examples that illustrate just how excruciatingly difficult it can be to champion new ideas based on specialized knowledge of "the particular circumstances of time and place" (Hayek 1945, 521), even when the ideas have clear advantages over existing alternatives (see, e.g., Rogers 2003;Weintraub 2010).…”

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A Subjectivist Approach to Team Entrepreneurship

Leunbach

Erikson

Bjørnåli

2020

QJAE

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Many scholars have pointed to Austrian subjectivism as an appropriate framework for understanding and studying entrepreneurship. Yet very few empirical studies in the field of entrepreneurship have applied a subjectivist lens. This research article responds to calls for more subjectivist entrepreneurship research by theoretically refining and empirically extending the subjectivist approach to team entrepreneurship. The findings presented in this study, which are based on data from 124 high-tech start-ups founded in Norway, suggest that positive internal and external team dynamics contribute to team effectiveness, as measured by the lead entrepreneur’s subjective assessment of his or her team. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

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Faculty development strategies for overcoming the “curse of knowledge”

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Quantitative assessments reveal improved neuroscience engagement and learning through outreach

Quantitative assessments reveal improved neuroscience engagement and learning through outreach

Teaching public speaking to medical students

A Subjectivist Approach to Team Entrepreneurship

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