Impact of prior knowledge of task context on approaches to applications tasks

Journal of Mathematical Behavior

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 333-361

  Stillman, Gloria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic prior knowledge; Applications; Encyclopaedic prior knowledge; Episodic prior knowledge; Prior knowledge; Secondary; Task context

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042185398     PISSN: 07323123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0732-3123(00)00049-3     Document Type: Article

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