Its purpose was to check if the two groups were equivalent on the prior knowledge of the topic.
Due to the lack of prior knowledge on this topic, we used a qualitative study design, which enables exploration of the topic from the perspectives of participants and what they perceive to be important, without being constrained by preconceived hypotheses.
Byrne et al. (1999) did a controlled experiment with CS majors who had algorithm analysis skills but no prior knowledge of the topic, binomial heap.
Then, learning is best facilitated when students have opportunities to explore their prior knowledge of the topic.
No prior knowledge on the network structure was used.
This example illustrates how possessing prior knowledge on a topic can lead to greater advances in overall conceptual understanding (Chinn and Brewer 1993; Lewis et al. 2010).
Moreover, contrary to the TDT framework [23], no prior knowledge on topics of interest is provided so as to not depend on any particular domain and, in the context of arbitrary TV contents, segments can exhibit very different lengths.
The usefulness of having more prior knowledge on a certain essay topic was attested to by the direct avowals of the respondents in the study.
But if the patient and the GP knew each other very well, the GP more often displayed prior knowledge with the topic in question.
Alternatively, based on prior knowledge one might prefer dependent priors for the δs.
