Student profiles of knowledge and epistemic beliefs: Changes and relations to multiple-text comprehension

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 25, Issue , 2013, Pages 49-61

  Ferguson, Leila E ^a   Bråten, Ivar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Epistemic beliefs; Knowledge; Multiple text comprehension; Student profiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872472689     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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