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book  is  merely  to  measure  the  magnitude  of

       knowledge in a specific subject matter which has

       been  mastered  or  acquired  by  a  specific


       population;  since  its  ultimate  aim  is  usually  to

       improve an existing intervention or to introduce a


       new  intervention,  apart  from  measuring  the

       knowledge  level  of  a  subject  which  has  been


       acquired by a specific population.

              Some of these ‘knowledge’ questionnaires


       can  be  fixed  or  just  slightly  modified  from  the

       existing  sets  of  questionnaires.  This  type  of


       ‘knowledge’ questionnaire is usually designed for

       testing  the  level  of  knowledge  attained  by  the
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