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Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I. – Metacognition and Learning, 2011
This study explored the dimensionality of multiple-text comprehension strategies in a sample of 216 Norwegian education undergraduates who read seven separate texts on a science topic and immediately afterwards responded to a self-report inventory focusing on strategic multiple-text processing in that specific task context. Two dimensions were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Science Materials, Reading Strategies
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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; Samuelstuen, Marit S.; Stromso, Helge I. – Educational Psychology, 2004
We examined whether perceived self-efficacy moderated the relationship between performance goals and self-regulatory strategy use in two different samples of 178 and 108 Norwegian post-secondary students. Using multiple regression with interaction terms, we found that perceived self-efficacy moderated the relation between performance-avoidance…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Goal Orientation, Student Motivation, Learning Strategies