Are sophisticated students always better? The role of topic-specific personal epistemology in the understanding of multiple expository texts

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 814-840

  Bråten, Ivar ^a   Strømsø, Helge I ^a   Samuelstuen, Marit S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Epistemic beliefs; Multiple texts; Personal epistemology; Reading; Text comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 52749095510     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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