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Direct linkFerguson, Leila E.; Braten, Ivar – Learning and Instruction, 2013
Using cluster-analysis in a sample of 65 Norwegian 10th graders, we identified subgroups characterized by relatively high levels of knowledge combined with relatively low beliefs in personal justification of knowledge claims, as well as subgroups characterized by the opposite pattern of knowledge and personal justification. Moreover, the high…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Profiles, Reading Comprehension, Grade 10
Ferguson, Leila E.; Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I. – Learning and Instruction, 2012
This study used think-aloud methodology to investigate 51 Norwegian undergraduates' topic-specific epistemic cognition while working with six documents presenting conflicting views on the issue of cell phones and potential health risks. Results showed that students' epistemic cognition was represented by one dimension concerning the certainty and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence, Protocol Analysis, Epistemology
Andreassen, Rune; Braten, Ivar – Learning and Instruction, 2011
In this intervention study, teachers tried to implement four instructional principles derived from the literature on research-based, explicit reading comprehension instruction in their fifth-grade classrooms. The principles focused on relevant background knowledge, reading comprehension strategies, reading-group organization, and reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Reading Motivation, Classrooms
Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I.; Salmeron, Ladislao – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The present study investigated how undergraduates judged the trustworthiness of different information sources that they read about climate change. Results showed that participants (N = 128) judged information from textbook and official documents to be more trustworthy than information from newspapers and a commercial agent. Moreover, participants…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Textbooks, Information Sources, Credibility
Stromso, Helge I.; Braten, Ivar; Britt, M. Anne – Learning and Instruction, 2010
In many situations, readers are asked to learn from multiple documents. Many studies have found that evaluating the trustworthiness and usefulness of document sources is an important skill in such learning situations. There has been, however, no direct evidence that attending to source information helps readers learn from and interpret a…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Memory, Climate, Reading Comprehension
Stromso, Helge I.; Braten, Ivar; Samuelstuen, Marit S. – Learning and Instruction, 2008
In this study, we aimed to investigate whether different dimensions of topic-specific epistemological beliefs predict students' understanding of seven texts representing partly conflicting views on climate change. A sample of 157 undergraduates responded to questionnaires on prior knowledge and topic-specific epistemological beliefs before they…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Climate, Epistemology, Higher Education
