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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Pieschl, Stephanie; Stahl, Elmar; Murray, Tom; Bromme, Rainer – Learning and Instruction, 2012
Theories of self-regulated learning assume that learners flexibly adapt their learning process to external task demands and that this is positively related to performance. In this study, university students (n = 119) solved three tasks that greatly differed in complexity. Their learning processes were captured in detail by task-specific…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Hypermedia, Learning Processes, College Students
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Scharrer, Lisa; Bromme, Rainer; Britt, M. Anne; Stadtler, Marc – Learning and Instruction, 2012
The present research investigated whether laypeople are inclined to rely on their own evaluations of the acceptability of scientific claims despite their knowledge limitations. Specifically, we tested whether laypeople are more prone to discount their actual dependence on expert knowledge when they are presented with simplified science texts. In…
Descriptors: Lay People, Scientific Attitudes, Evaluation, Knowledge Level
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Kienhues, Dorothe; Stadtler, Marc; Bromme, Rainer – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The present study investigated how dealing with conflicting versus consistent medical information on the Web impacts on topic-specific and medicine-related epistemic beliefs as well as aspects of health decision making. One hundred mostly female university students were randomly assigned to three groups. Two intervention groups searched the Web…
Descriptors: Internet, Electronic Publishing, Medicine, Health Materials
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Jucks, Regina; Bromme, Rainer; Runde, Anne – Learning and Instruction, 2007
We report two experimental studies on the potentially detrimental effects of nonshared, external representations in an instructional setting. Domain experts viewing an external representation responded to E-mail inquiries for medical advice written by people who were unable to see this external representation. Based on research on expert-layperson…
Descriptors: Lay People, Computer Mediated Communication, Professional Personnel, Health Personnel
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Stahl, Elmar; Bromme, Rainer – Learning and Instruction, 2007
This article presents a semantic differential called Connotative Aspects of Epistemological Beliefs (CAEB) developed to assess university students' epistemological beliefs with adjective pairs such as dynamic-static and objective-subjective. After discussing the theoretical background, data are reported from two validation studies. The aim of the…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Semantic Differential, Natural Sciences, Epistemology
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Rambow, Riklef; Bromme, Rainer – Learning and Instruction, 1995
The structure of architects' psychological knowledge of the effects of their decisions on building occupants was studied. Remarkably few differences were found in judgments of 57 experienced and 57 novice architects about the quality of a floor plan. The special nature of architecture may provide a possible explanation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Architects, Architecture, Experience, Feedback