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Danielson, Robert W.; Sinatra, Gale M.; Trevors, Greg; Muis, Krista R.; Pekrun, Reinhard; Heddy, Benjamin C. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2023
When individuals seek to learn about scientific information, they likely turn to the Internet. There, they will find multiple documents with conflicting points of view and varying degrees of accuracy. Integrating this information is challenging and may evoke epistemic emotions which may, in turn, influence how this information is integrated.…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Epistemology, Psychological Patterns, Causal Models
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Kendeou, Panayiota; Muis, Krista R.; Fulton, Sandra – Journal of Research in Reading, 2011
The effects of epistemic beliefs and text structure on cognitive processes during comprehension of scientific texts were investigated. On-line processes were measured using think-aloud (Experiment 1) and reading time (Experiment 2) methodologies. Measures of off-line comprehension, prior knowledge and epistemic beliefs were obtained. Results…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, Protocol Analysis, Prior Learning