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Peer reviewedSpyridakis, Jan H.; Wenger, Michael J. – British Educational Research Journal, 1991
Reviews the literature on the effect of prior knowledge and text familiarity on document comprehension and usability. Discusses current methods for assessing subjects' topic familiarity. Presents an empirically based method for effectively assessing topic familiarity. Explains that the method includes use of two subject groups and reliance on…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Familiarity, Higher Education, Prior Learning
