Promoting secondary school students' evaluation of source features of multiple documents

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 180-195

  Braasch, Jason L G ^a   Bråten, Ivar ^a   Strømsø, Helge I ^a   Anmarkrud, Øistein ^a   Ferguson, Leila E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Contrasting cases intervention; Multiple documents reading; Source evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877048590     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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