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Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
In this study, law students (n = 49) read multiple authentic documents presenting conflicting information on the topic of climate change and responded to verification tasks assessing their superficial as well as their deeper-level within- and across-documents comprehension. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that even after variance…
Descriptors: Law Students, Prior Learning, Climate, Epistemology
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Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2003
Examines the strategies spontaneously used by Norwegian university law students as they tried to understand multiple expository texts as part of their normal reading and studying. Finds that students' strategic processing changed over time, with some of the changes associated with changes in students' perception of the nature of the reading task.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Law Students, Longitudinal Studies