Prior knowledge research spans 23 topics organized into five communities: Education, Learning Environments, Cognitive Processes, Nonacademic Settings, and Language¶
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q3 i? Structural topic modeling of 13,507 publications identified 23 topics of prior knowledge research, and community detection grouped them into five communities. → Bittermann 2023
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Bittermann 2023¶
Bittermann, A., McNamara, D., Simonsmeier, B. A., & Schneider, M. (2023). The Landscape of Research on Prior Knowledge and Learning: a Bibliometric Analysis. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09775-9
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Bibliometric analysis of studies (1980–2021) from PsycInfo, PSYNDEX, ERIC, and Web of Science using structural topic modeling; after artifact-topic screening the corpus retained "N = 13,507 publications and k = 23 topics", and community detection grouped the topics into five communities labeled Education, Learning Environments, Cognitive Processes, Nonacademic Settings, and Language.
"By doing so, we removed n = 160 irrelevant publications. Totals of N = 13,507 publications and k = 23 topics remained and were analyzed further."
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Related Claims¶
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- Topic communities form a network in which education research draws on learning-environment and language research, which draw on cognitive-processes research — related
- Topic modeling reveals 20 topics in six communities, with special education and collaborative knowledge construction thematically isolated — related
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Prior knowledge research spans 23 topics organized into five communities: Education, Learning Environments, Cognitive Processes, Nonacademic Settings, and Language |
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Prior knowledge research spans 23 topics organized into five communities: Education, Learning Environments, Cognitive Processes, Nonacademic Settings, and Language |
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