Six match-to-sample picture/object selection experiments explored 3- to 5-year-olds' knowledge about superordinate words and acquisition of this knowledge. Findings indicated that number of standards (one versus two), types of standards (different versus same basic-level categories), and nature of representation (pictures versus objects)…

Surveyed parents of third graders in an urban public school system regarding their knowledge about school health services, value they placed on the services, and barriers to health care access. Overall, parents highly valued school health services, knew little about service availability and use, and were often unaware their children received many…

This exercise is designed to assist school counselors in assessing their knowledge of emerging theories of career choice and development. The aim is to highlight the newer career development theories and motivate counselors to review the emerging career choice and development theories. (BF)

Currently there is little knowledge reuse across training, documentation, and performance support. Knowledge-based materials developed for one purpose are not shared or reused in others. The Knowledge Warehouse, a conceptual solution to this problem is discussed. Benefits and limitations are outlined and a definition of a standardized…

Examined the influence of subject matter knowledge on students' recall of and interest in scientific exposition by assessing the topic knowledge and domain knowledge of 209 college students reading 2 passages from the physics domain. Findings tend to support a three-stage model of domain learning with an interactive picture of knowledge, recall,…

Explores a form of "connected science" in which real world problems and school-community partnerships are used as contextual scaffolds for bridging students' community-based knowledge and school-based knowledge as a way to provide all students opportunities for meaningful and intellectually challenging science learning. (Author/MM)

After a study identified inconsistencies between cognitive research findings and accounting teaching methods, accounting instructors in Scottish colleges implemented a cognitive approach with 49 students. Compared to 31 controls, these students were better able to adapt what they had learned to complete nonroutine tasks. (Contains 44 references.)…

Knowledge, anxiety, and attitudes about older adults and one's own aging were assessed in 256 college students. Compared to 128 with no coursework, 128 who completed a psychology of aging course had more knowledge and more positive attitudes. No differences in personal anxiety or attitudes about self-aging were found. (Contains 26 references.) (SK)

In this study, 5- and 6-year-olds were read a story and asked to recall its details. Two independent factors-prestory knowledge and poststory suggestions-were crossed to examine the effects on children's story recall. The results indicated that prestory social knowledge about the story protagonist as well as academic knowledge relating to the…

Numerous research studies have highlighted the significant impact of domain knowledge and individual interest on learning. However, much of this prior research has neglected several important issues regarding the dynamic interplay of domain knowledge and individual interest both within and between domains as well as across developmental stages of…

The current study sought to discover whether workplace support provided by Army Family Team Building (AFTB) of the Department of the Army was associated with changes in individual knowledge of basic Army lifestyle information, and whether such changes influenced a sense of fit and satisfaction with the Army. Data were collected from 69 Army wives.…

This article explores why art education after modernism needs to engage with and assess two forms of knowledge. It distinguishes procedural knowledge or "knowing how" from declarative knowledge or 'knowing that", and argues that current classroom practice and more general thinking in art education in the UK confuses evidence of…

Social work programs accredited by the Council on Social Work Education educate students for practice at the undergraduate and graduate levels. This paper presents a critical analysis of social work education in the United States. The analysis suggests that graduates of social work programs do not appear to master the skills, knowledge and values…

Two experiments on preschoolers' understanding of the effects of exposure on knowing-that and knowing-how were conducted with 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children (N=388) in 2 locations: a small midwestern city in the United States and a suburban area of Hong Kong, China. By using both English- and Chinese-speaking samples, the authors examined…

Prior knowledge is often argued to be an important determinant in hypermedia learning, and may be thought of as including two important elements: domain expertise and system expertise. However, there has been a lack of research considering these issues together. In an attempt to address this shortcoming, this paper presents a study that examines…