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Cerdán, Raquel; Máñez, Ignacio; Serrano-Mendizábal, Marian – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
The current information society requires people to handle information from different sources, which entails specific skills beyond those needed to comprehend and use information from a single text. Given the relevance of becoming a competent reader in functional reading scenarios, it is crucial to examine how contextual-, task-, and…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, History Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Information Literacy
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Bråten, Ivar; Brandmo, Christian; Kammerer, Yvonne – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2019
The purpose of this study was to validate a new inventory designed to measure epistemic beliefs concerning the justification of knowledge claims encountered on the Internet. Confirmatory factor analysis of the scores of 394 preservice teachers showed that a three-factor model including justification by authority, justification by multiple sources,…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Factor Analysis, Internet, Construct Validity
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Crist, Courtney A.; Duncan, Susan E.; Bianchi, Laurie M. – Journal of Food Science Education, 2017
A Wiki research project was created in the Functional Foods for Health (FST/HNFE 2544) as an instructional tool and assignment for improving undergraduate students' proficiency in evaluating appropriate information sources for rapidly evolving science and research. The project design targeted improving students' information literacy skills…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Food, Information Sources, Information Literacy