Adaptive Performance

Overview & Synopsis

In response to societal changes, higher engineering education is increasingly seeking innovative educational concepts that integrate deep disciplinary knowledge with a broad understanding of other disciplines and systems. Future professionals must be flexible and adaptive, capable of making informed decisions based on complex and often limited information. A common thread in innovative educational approaches such as problem-based learning, challenge-based learning, and transdisciplinary education is the cultivation of adaptive expertise and the ability to demonstrate this expertise in everyday practice. However, adaptive performance is seldom explicitly addressed in the literature on these concepts. This gap inspired the editors of this volume to compile a diverse array of practices that illustrate and explain adaptive expertise and performance, highlighting its relevance and providing inspiration for educators and researchers. This volume presents a collection of studies on adaptive performance, organised into thematic sections that address: Part I: Conceptual deepening and underlying mechanisms of adaptive performance in the context of workplace-based learning in engineering. Part II: Methods for stimulating adaptive performance in various contexts. Part III: Formative assessment of adaptive performance.