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Kammerer, Yvonne; Gottschling, Steffen; Bråten, Ivar – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2021
This study explored relationships between Internet-specific justification beliefs and source evaluation and corroboration during Web search. Fifty university students completed the Internet-Specific Epistemic Justification Inventory (ISEJ), which targeted beliefs concerning the justification of Internet-based knowledge claims about natural science…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Internet, Web Sites, Navigation (Information Systems)
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Kendeou, Panayiota; Braasch, Jason L. G.; Bråten, Ivar – Journal of Experimental Education, 2016
A refutation text is designed to promote conceptual change by explicitly acknowledging commonly held misconceptions about a topic, directly refuting them, and providing an accurate explanation. In this study, we determined the impact of different types of refutation texts on adolescent readers' conceptual change learning in science. Specifically,…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Concept Formation, Change, Learning
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Bråten, Ivar; Ferguson, Leila E.; Strømsø, Helge I.; Anmarkrud, Øistein – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2013
Building on the multidimensional framework of epistemic cognition proposed by Greene et al. ("Educational Psychologist" 43:142--160, 2008), this study examined beliefs about justification of knowledge claims in science among 65 Norwegian 10th graders. The first research question asked whether beliefs in personal justification,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 10, Student Attitudes