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Are Sophisticated Students Always Better? The Role of Topic-Specific Personal Epistemology in the Understanding of Multiple Expository Texts
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Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I.; Samuelstuen, Marit S. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2008
In a sample of 135 Norwegian education undergraduates, we examined the effects of topic-specific epistemic beliefs concerning the simplicity and source of knowledge on deep-level understanding of multiple expository texts about the same topic--climate change. The results showed that students holding sophisticated simplicity beliefs, viewing…
Descriptors: Climate, Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students