The process of using information about documents such as the author, genre, and date of
publication while evaluating and interpreting those documents' content was labeled …

This chapter aims to review current research on individual differences in multiple documents
(MD) comprehension and to discuss the implications of these differences for educational …

This chapter provides a theoretical background by discussing different frameworks relevant
for understanding the role of sourcing in discourse comprehension. It reviews empirical work …

The Internet offers readers the unique opportunity to access rich information scenarios, but
doing so requires the use of advanced digital reading skills. Examples of such scenarios are …

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 …

Increased amounts of information available from the Internet have triggered new demands
for students to evaluate information quality. Our study presents an instructional intervention …

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

Developing critical processing of online information is one important mission of schooling in
the 21st century. However, science teachers often lack an instructional tool they can …

In this quasi‐experimental study, the authors examined the effects of an intervention
designed to teach upper secondary school students to take source information, such as …

This study investigated the effects of author expertise and content relevance on Norwegian
secondary school students'(n= 190) selection, processing, and use of multiple documents …