What is Prior Knowledge

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What students already know/their experiences which they bring to the classroom. Learn more in: Teachers' and Students' Role in the Learner-Centered Classrooms: Experiences from Namibia

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Knowledge, no matter how limited, a pupil has at the beginning of a new topic. This knowledge will have been gathered over time in a variety of ways. Some prior knowledge may be flawed or inaccurate, which leads to the need for restructuring schemas. Learn more in: Information-Rich Learning Concepts

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Knowledge that the learner possesses about the relevant topic before the collaborative learning phase begins. Learn more in: Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Scenarios: And External Representations for Promoting Them

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The amount of knowledge one possesses about a particular subject matter. Learn more in: Individual Differences in Web-Based Learning

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Knowledge acquired prior to a new learning process. Learn more in: Test Design to Assess the Qualities of Science Students' Prior Knowledge

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The knowledge that stems from previous experience. Learn more in: Symmetry Detection in Brain Image Analysis

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This type of knowledge is unique to each person, and it is likely to be incorrect from a scientific point of view. It is the background for categorizing or recognizing various situations, but does not provide a very precise explanation of how and why it is happening. Prior knowledge may vary depending on age and education received by the individual. Learn more in: Measurement Instruments to Motivate Scientific Learning by Conceptual Change

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Information already learned and held in long-term memory. Learn more in: Human Cognition in the Design of Assistive Technology for Those with Learning Disabilities

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The amount of knowledge a student has accumulated on a specific domain prior to embarking on a course of study in that domain. Learn more in: Personalised E-Learning: The Assessment of Students' Prior Knowledge in Higher Education

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Refers to the existing knowledge of a firm which has been gained from prior product or service innovations. Learn more in: Understanding Knowledge Absorption for Inbound Open Innovation Practices: How Do Knowledge Antecedents Influence the Process?

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is our prior belief of a certain event. In this chapter we fuse different pieces of e.g. structural data into our prior belief, which enables the integration of structural and expression data. Learn more in: Integrating Various Data Sources for Improved Quality in Reverse Engineering of Gene Regulatory Networks

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Prior knowledge refers to the knowledge which includes facts, concepts, rules, principles, and relationship between concepts, rules, and principles, in a specific domain. This type of prior knowledge is stored in an individual’s schema. Learning suffers if learners lack sufficient prior knowledge. Without prior knowledge, learners are limited in their ability to construct new knowledge (Potelle & Rouet, 2003). As a result, new learning can be very difficult and very tiring (Novak, 1998). Learn more in: Using Concept Maps to Enhance Students' Prior Knowledge in Complex Learning