Proliferating information and viewpoints in the 21st century require an educated citizenry
with the ability to think critically about complex, controversial issues. Critical thinking …

Epistemic cognition is the thinking that people do about what and how they know. Education
has long been concerned with promoting reflection on knowledge and processes of …

Across two studies, we evaluated a model that proposed relations between epistemic
cognition, epistemic emotions, self-regulatory strategies, and learning of complex …

Today's students must learn to be critical consumers of the digital learning technologies that
are rapidly populating their world. Digital literacy is not an innate skill, and comprises more …

Conflicting claims about important socio-scientific debates are proliferating in contemporary
society. It is therefore important to understand the individual characteristics that predict …

Learning in contemporary knowledge societies requires using multiple information sources,
or documents, to understand important phenomena and events. However, students can find …

Easily comprehensible summaries of scholarly articles that are provided alongside
'ordinary'scientific abstracts, so-called plain language summaries, can be a powerful tool for …

This study explored relationships between Internet-specific justification beliefs and source
evaluation and corroboration during Web search. Fifty university students completed the …

Students frequently turn to the internet for information about a range of scientific issues.
However, they can find it challenging to evaluate the credibility of the information they find …

This study aimed to identify the specific home environment factors that were judged to
support or hinder the development of children's critical reading skills. Using a Delphi …