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Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I.; Samuelstuen, Marit S. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2008
In a sample of 135 Norwegian education undergraduates, we examined the effects of topic-specific epistemic beliefs concerning the simplicity and source of knowledge on deep-level understanding of multiple expository texts about the same topic--climate change. The results showed that students holding sophisticated simplicity beliefs, viewing…
Descriptors: Climate, Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
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Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I.; Samuelstuen, Marit S. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2005
In a sample of 157 Norwegian political science undergraduates, two dimensions of epistemological beliefs concerning Internet-based knowledge and knowing were identified through factor analysis. The first dimension, general Internet epistemology, ranged from the integrated view that the Internet is an essential source of true, specific facts to…
Descriptors: Internet, Epistemology, Beliefs, Learning