Publications
Publication details [#6854]
Miyake, Naomi and Donald A. Norman. 1979. To ask a question, one must know enough to know what is not known. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 18 (3) : 357–364. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Annotation
Report of a study suggesting that any theory of question asking in learning should consider the interaction between the levels of knowledge of the asker and of the material; trained learners can ask more questions about harder material than novice learners.