The role of epistemic perspectives in comprehension of multiple author viewpoints

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 36, Issue , 2015, Pages 86-103

  Barzilai, Sarit ^a   Eshet Alkalai, Yoram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Digital literacy; Epistemic thinking; Information source integration; Multiple document comprehension; Viewpoint comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921038836     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2014.12.003     Document Type: Article

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