DEVELOPING EXPERTISE IN SPORT - THE RELATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND PERFORMANCE

Sport offers an excellent circumstance to study the development of exp ertise because the knowledge and skill involved can be circumscribed a nd defined. Two aspects of sport are different from most other areas o f expertise: Decisions have to be made within rapid time constraints, and knowledge about how to perform and performance are not necessarily related. In this paper we discuss these issues in a developmental mod el and consider the relations among knowledge, skill, and game perform ance. In particular we point out several of the methodological issues that can confound research in this paradigm.