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Anmarkrud, Oistein; Braten, Ivar – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
In a sample of 104 Norwegian ninth-grade students, we examined whether perceived reading efficacy and reading task value uniquely predicted the comprehension of a social studies text after variance associated with gender, achievement in the domain, topic knowledge, deeper strategies, and surface strategies had been removed through forced-order…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Prior Learning, Motivation, Statistical Significance
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Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I. – Reading Psychology, 2006
We examined whether the text understanding of students holding naive and sophisticated epistemological beliefs was differentially affected by text format, also controlling for effects of gender, word decoding, and prior knowledge on understanding. The participants were 39 Norwegian first-year teacher students, and the topic of reading was…
Descriptors: Hyperactivity, Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Attention Deficit Disorders