Impact of prior knowledge of informational content and organization on learning search principles in a database

User acceptance of a digital library system in developing countries: An application of the Technology Acceptance Model

“…Studies on information retrieval systems indicate that individuals with in-depth knowledge in the field know how to formulate more sophisticated and accurate queries (Linde & Bergstrom, 1988;Marchionini, Dwiggins, Katz, & Lin, 1993;Meadow, Wang, & Yuan, 1995;Wildemuth, 2003) and how to make more efficient use of the database systems in extracting relevant information. In the studies of digital library systems in particular, Hong et al (2002) and Thong et al (2002) found that research respondents who were more familiar with the knowledge domain they searched perceived the system easier to use.…”

Evaluation of the PROMIS physical function item bank in orthopaedic patients

“…Domain knowledge is also one of the most significant elements for PEOU in digital library usage (e.g., Park et al, 2009; Hong et al, 2002). Domain knowledge enables users to formulate more sophisticated and accurate search terms (Linde & Bergstrom, 1988; Marchionini, Dwiggins, Katz, & Lin, 1993; Meadow, Wang, & Yuan, 1995; Wildemuth, 2003), and it enables them to make more efficient use of the database systems in extracting relevant information. Subsequently, empirical studies show that those with system experience and domain knowledge are likely to perceive the digital library as easier to use (Wildemuth, 2004; Hong et al, 2002).…”

An Empirical Method of Assessing Topic Familiarity in Reading Comprehension Research

“…Another obvious way to control the effects of familiarity is to directly manipulate subjects' familiarity through pre-training on the concepts and content of the experimental materials (Linde & Bergstrom, 1988;Barnes et al, 1989;Stahl et al, 1989;Wilhite, 1989).…”

“…an introductory survey of human psychology course) that may have given them more pre-existing knowledge than the investigator assumed. Additionally, the belief that subjects have little prior knowledge because the topic concerns imaginary entities (Stahl et al, 1989) or because the subjects do not own or have any direct experience with the experimental task (Linde & Bergstrom, 1988) may ignore the fact that certain subjects may be familiar with topics that are compatible with the experimental topic familiarity that could aid their performance on experimental outcome measures. These issues seem to point to the need to assess the familiarity of a representative sample drawn from the experimental sample frame in order to assess actual topic familiarity.…”