David W. Eccles's research while affiliated with Florida State University and other places

... These activities can be designed by external agents, such as teachers or trainers, or by the performers themselves." Keith and Ericsson (2007, p study, Ericsson et al. (2009) explained that "researchers have reported a consistent association between the amount and quality of solitary activities meeting the criteria of deliberate practice and performance in different domains of expertise, such as…Scrabble (Tuffiash et al., 2007)" (p. 9, emphasis added). Apparently, the criteria for deliberate practice have shifted. ...

... Deliberate practice framework (DPF) is a meta-framework that continues to inform discourse in skills development and coaching [10]. The term "Deliberate Practice" was first coined by K. Anders Ericsson in 1993 [11], which he defined as a conscious, repeated, effortful & structured practice with the aim of achieving specific goals. ...

... While the reason for poor sleep quality is not clear, one possibility is that international level athletes are unable to detach from training activation and rumination. Balk et al. (2021) reported that higher physical fatigue in elite athletes following a day's training was related to athletes' self-reported inability to stop thinking about their sport at the end of that day, which might in turn affect sleep. ...

... Runners should consider their mental detachment and recovery activities, and should try to truly 'disconnect' from their sport during their 'off' moments. For this purpose, we recommend the article by Eccles et al. (2021), which provides practical recommendations to promote mental rest in athletes. Running coaches can consider an initial, structured screening for high-risk runners and can try to intervene as early as possible by applying the suggestions given above, for example. ...

... The concept of deliberate practice has been largely misinterpreted in sporting literature in recent times, often being promoted as the idea that young athletes should aim to achieve 10,000 hours of practice. Instead, Eccles et al. ( 2022) dismiss this idea and instead offer seven key principles under the acronym EXPERTS' ( see Table 10.5) for applying the method of deliberate practice within coaching. Eccles et al. ( 2022) suggest that coaches should make use of established training techniques that have worked overtime to support the development of their players technical and tactical qualities. ...

... Research that has established best practices for the use of recovery modalities (e.g., Crowther presented these findings in a descriptive model of the psychology of rest, which identified five 6 deleterious psychological experiences and seven restful ones. This model was subsequently 119 used to inform practical recommendations for promoting mental rest grounded in an athlete-120 centered perspective (Eccles et al., 2022). Though mental rest is only one part of recovery 121 (Kellmann, 2002), this work illustrated how an athlete-centered approach can embrace the 122 complexity of restorative processes around high-performance training. ...

... In line with prior research (e.g., Eccles & Kazmier, 2019;Balk et al., 2019;de Jonge et al., 2018), recovery is measured as detachment (Sonnentag & Fritz, 2007). Detachment originates from work psychology, where it is defined as "an individual's sense of being away from the work situation" (Etzion et al., 1998, p. 579). ...

... Another method, think aloud protocols, was designed to document SRL processes from learners in verbal form and in real-time. Despite the considerable results that researchers have achieved using this approach, for example, in identifying SRL processes that differentiate between low-and highachieving learners (Azevedo et al., 2004b;Bannert et al., 2014) and in evaluating the effects of external SRL support (Azevedo et al., 2004a(Azevedo et al., , 2007Sonnenberg & Bannert, 2016), think aloud protocols are deemed limited and challenging, with abundant data being generated that is difficult and time-consuming to analyse (Aleven et al., 2010;Eccles & Arsal, 2017;Greene & Azevedo, 2009;Ramey et al., 2006;Veenman, 2013;Winne, 2010;Young, 2005). ...

... According to long-term working memory (LTWM) theory (Ericsson & Kintsch, 1995), domain-specific retrieval structures facilitate the rapid encoding and indexing of relevant information in long-term memory, as well as subsequent access to said information when required. This process of expanding working memory through extended domain-specific practice allows experts to engage in the type of extensive evaluation and planning processes that are inherently necessary in dynamic tasks (Harris et al., 2017;McPherson, 2000). ...

... For example, even in a domain as ostensibly different from nursing as golf, more skilled golfers spend more time and think more about visually assessing (i.e., diagnosing) the properties of a given shot (stimp, break, length, wind, etc.) prior to making the shot when compared to less-skilled golfers, and especially for more complex shots. [21] Note that from this theoretical perspective, the basis for skilled performance is enhanced knowledge, which in turn leads the performer to make a considered search of the problem environment with a view to building a more enhanced problem representation. This theoretical perspective is not consistent with our empirical finding of no relationship between our nurses' GPA, which we might take as a reflection of their knowledge in the nursing domain, and their performance in the healthcare scenarios. ...