Measuring Knowledge Use

Another paper today, this one very easy to read and understand!! This paper by William Dunn (Measuring Knowledge Use, 1983) is a brief summary (in 1983) of the problem of measuring knowledge in research. I thought that this may prove to be of particular relevance to my research. The paper is a summary or a very brief literature review of main approaches take to measuring knowledge via interview and questionnaire techniques. More importantly, the paper summarises the methods used by researchers in quantifying knowledge by use of different scales. This paper, has some good references, although I suspect is quite old, nevertheless because of its accessibility is a good place to start when looking at the subject.