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Magalí Ayelén Martínez; Gaston Saux; Franco Londra; Debora I. Burin – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
We adapted and evaluated the effects of a classroom intervention (extension of https://doi-org.bibliotheek.ehb.be/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2018.04.006) on undergraduates' sourcing skills. Students (n = 266) received either a teacher-led intervention (trained group) or regular classes (control group) and were assessed before, after, and 6 to 8 weeks after the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Intervention, Information Sources, Foreign Countries
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Gottschling, Steffen; Kammerer, Yvonne – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This eye-tracking study examines how differences in sources' trustworthiness are used by readers to regulate and resolve conflicting scientific claims. One hundred forty-four university students were sequentially presented with two conflicting scientific claims (regarding nanotechnology) across two texts. The claims were indicated to stem from two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Critical Reading, Information Sources
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Wertgen, Andreas G.; Richter, Tobias; Rouet, Jean-François – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study examined the role of source credibility in the validation of factual information embedded in short narratives. In a self-paced reading experiment, we tested the assumption that the degree of (im-)plausibility determines the extent that source credibility affects validation during comprehension. We used reading times of target and…
Descriptors: Credibility, Information Sources, Expertise, Validity
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Gottschling, Steffen; Kammerer, Yvonne; Gerjets, Peter – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
The present research examines how the usefulness of source information to explain conflicting scientific claims affects laypersons' processing of this information as they seek possible explanations for the conflicting scientific claims in the sources and during resolution of the conflict. In an eye-tracking experiment, we presented 76 participants…
Descriptors: Reading, Information Utilization, Conflict, Eye Movements
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Scharrer, Lisa; Britt, M. Anne; Stadtler, Marc; Bromme, Rainer – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Well-educated laypeople tend to rely on their own ability to evaluate scientific claims when they obtain information from texts with high comprehensibility. The present study investigated whether controversial content reduces this facilitating effect of high text comprehensibility on readers' self-reliance and whether the influence of…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Readability, Medicine, Reading Materials