Item: The Development of Ski Guide Decision Expertise
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Title: The Development of Ski Guide Decision Expertise
Proceedings: International Snow Science Workshop 2014 Proceedings, Banff, Canada
Authors:
- Iain Stewart-Patterson [ Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada ]
Date: 2014-09-29
Abstract: The development of ski guide decision expertise is situated within an environmental context influenced by massive consequence and feedback ambiguity. Typically, the quality of the decision process is described as being contingent on the evolved expertise of the decision maker. The central problem is that decision feedback often lacks clarity when nothing goes wrong. Notable events have been regularly studied for the possible lessons to be learned. However, days when everything has appeared to go well are rarely analysed. The implicit feedback from a day when nothing bad happened is that good decisions were made. This then becomes the basis for future pattern recognition. This is particularly significant when the consequences are high and the quality and quantity of feedback is low. Termed a wicked learning environment, it can help to form questionable patterns that may produce heuristic biases in the future.
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O13.05.pdf
Language of Article: English
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Keywords: decision-making, expertise, situational awareness, pattern recognition
Page Number(s): 367-373
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