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Braten, Ivar; Britt, M. Anne; Stromso, Helge I.; Rouet, Jean-Francois – Educational Psychologist, 2011
In present-day knowledge societies, competent reading involves the integration of information from multiple sources into a coherent, meaningful representation of a topic, issue, or situation. This article reviews research and theory concerning the comprehension of multiple textual resources, focusing especially on linkages recently established…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Comprehension, Models
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Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
In present-day knowledge societies, readers cannot understand complex issues without constructing meaning across multiple information sources. To what extent they are able to do so may depend on both characteristics of reading tasks and characteristics of readers themselves. In this study, 184 undergraduates read multiple texts about the complex…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Climate, Epistemology, Undergraduate Students