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ERIC Number: EJ520998
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
Interrelationship of Knowledge, Interest, and Recall: Assessing a Model of Domain Learning.
Alexander, Patricia A.; And Others
Journal of Educational Psychology, v87 n4 p559-75 Dec 1995
Two experiments involving 125 college and graduate students examined the interrelationship of subject-matter knowledge, interest, and recall in the field of human immunology and biology and assessed cross-domain performance in physics. Patterns of knowledge, interest, and performance fit well with the premises of the Model of Domain Learning. (SLD)
Descriptors: Biology, College Students, Higher Education, Interests, Knowledge Level, Models, Performance, Physics, Recall (Psychology)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Domain Knowledge; Immunology; Subject Content Knowledge
Note: Versions of these experiments were presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association (Atlanta, GA, April 1993 and San Francisco, CA, April 1994).