Impact of Prior Knowledge of Informational Content and Organization on Learning Search Principles in a Database.

Linde, Lena; Bergstrom, Monica

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Publication Date: 1988

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Impact of Prior Knowledge of Informational Content and Organization on Learning Search Principles in a Database.

Linde, Lena; Bergstrom, Monica

Contemporary Educational Psychology, v13 n2 p90-101 Apr 1988

The importance of prior knowledge of informational content and organization for search performance on a database was evaluated for 17 undergraduates. Pretraining related to content, and information did facilitate learning logical search principles in a relational database; contest pretraining was more efficient. (SLD)

Descriptors: Databases, Learning Processes, Online Searching, Prior Learning, Search Strategies, Training Methods, Undergraduate Students, User Needs (Information)

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