The role of epistemic beliefs in the comprehension of single and multiple texts

Handbook of Individual Differences in Reading: Reader, Text, and Context

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 67-79

  Bråten, Ivar ^a   Strømsø, Helge I ^a   Ferguson, Leila E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203075562     Document Type: Chapter

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