What Procedural Knowledge Is

Within the context of Knowledge Management, procedural knowledge, also known as imperative knowledge,
is the type of knowledge exercised in the performance of a task. It’s basically “how” you know to do
something.
The classic example of procedural knowledge is riding a bicycle. When someone was teaching you how to
ride a bicycle, no matter what they said, you probably struggled to grasp it until you’d actually done it a few
times. Once you figured it out, it quickly became implicit knowledge. That is, the type of knowledge that is
hard to explain as it is subconsciously stored in your mind; (‘muscle memory’ is another phrase used to
describe implicit knowledge).
Procedural knowledge differs from declarative knowledge, which is thought of as ‘knowledge about’ or the
answers to the what, where, when, or who types of questions, rather than the ‘how.’ Facts, world history, or
rules for mathematical equations are all examples of declarative knowledge.
Declarative knowledge is also usually explicit knowledge, meaning that you are consciously aware that you
understand the information. For example, you know for a fact that 10/22/1987 is your birthday because you
were born on the 22nd day of October in the year 1987.
https://tettra.com/article/what-procedural-knowledge-is-and-how-to-use-it/

The following are other aspects of procedural knowledge:

 • It can involve more senses, such as hands-on experience, practice at solving problems, understanding of
the limitations of a specific solution, etc.
• Know-how can frequently eclipse theory.
• Has high efficiency.
• Has low modifiability.
• Has low cognitive adequacy.

Knowing how the strategy works or is implemented is called “procedural knowledge”:

• What are the steps, the process, and the procedure?
• What do I do first, then next, and then following?
• Knowing that a strategy exists does only so much good if we do not know how to implement it.

In other words, procedural knowledge is skill knowledge: 

• A simple example of human procedural knowledge is the ability to ride a bike.
• The specifics of bicycle riding may be difficult to articulate but one can perform the task.
• One advantage of procedural representations is possibly faster usage in a performance system.
• Productions are a common means of representing procedural knowledge.
https://www.slideserve.com/avani/procedural-knowledge-powerpoint-ppt-presentation
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