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Trevors, Gregory; Muis, Krista R. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2015
We investigated the online and offline effects of learner and instructional characteristics on conceptual change of a robust misconception in science. Fifty-nine undergraduate university students with misconceptions about evolution were identified as espousing evaluativist or non-evaluativist epistemic beliefs in science. Participants were…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Characteristics, Attitude Change, Scientific Attitudes
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Babino, Alexandra, Ed.; Cossa, Nedra, Ed.; Araujo, Juan J., Ed.; Johnson, Robin D., Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2019
The theme for the 62nd annual conference of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers was Educating for a Just Society. Connie Briggs, previous Program Chair, reminded us that, "Education has always been the foundation of a democratic nation. It is important that our students understand the principles upon which our nation was…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Social Justice, Arabs, Culture
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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