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Cognitive task analysis for expert-based instruction in healthcare

Richard Clark

pp. 541-551

This chapter presents an overview of the rationale and evidence for the use of cognitive task analysis (CTA) in healthcare including the following: It presents a brief history and definition of CTA, the reason it is being adopted for healthcare education, evidence for its learning benefits when used in evidence-based instructional design and medical simulators, an example of how one of the evidence-based CTA methods was implemented in healthcare, and suggestions for future research. The point is made that when evidence-based CTA methods are used, learning from CTA-based healthcare instruction increases an average of 45 % when compared with current task analysis methods.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3185-5_42

Full citation:

Clark, R. (2014)., Cognitive task analysis for expert-based instruction in healthcare, in J. Elen (ed.), Handbook of research on educational communications and technology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 541-551.

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