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Main Author: Brown, Mary E.
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 1995
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ518489
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  • By Any Other Name: Accounting for Failure in the Naming of Subject Categories. Brown, Mary E. Cross Sectional Studies Difficulty Level Elementary Secondary Education Evaluation Methods Higher Education Metacognition Search Strategies Subject Index Terms Discusses subject searching and describes a study that evaluated the match between the named terms and the expected subject headings by examining the subject search terms generated by students. Highlights include nonsemantic properties in evaluating search terms, including concreteness, complexity, and syndeticity; and metacognitive naming skills for improving inadequate searches. (LRW)