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Bråten, Ivar; Brante, Eva W.; Strømsø, Helge I. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
One-hundred and twenty-seven Norwegian upper-secondary school students completing college preparatory courses (41% female) were asked to select the texts they wanted to use in order to write a letter to the editor about a socio-scientific topic, with 60 students assigned the topic of climate change and 67 students assigned the topic of nuclear…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, College Preparation
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McCrudden, Matthew T.; Stenseth, Tonje; Bråten, Ivar; Strømsø, Helge I. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
This mixed methods study investigated the extent to which author expertise and content relevance were salient to secondary Norwegian students (N = 153) when they selected documents that pertained to more familiar and less familiar topics. Quantitative results indicated that author expertise was more salient for the less familiar topic (nuclear…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Expertise, Statistical Analysis, Qualitative Research