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Content and performance descriptions of domains.

"
Instruments are developed to
assess learning progress and performance in domains of human knowledge, proficiency, and
accomplishment. Domains are usually signified by familiar content or topical names, like
calculus, American history, accounting, network engineering, and nursing. Topics signify
categories of what people may know, but they do not describe what people can do, so other uses
of language, such as objectives or work-models are needed." (Bunderson, 2003, p. 5 (pdf)

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