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Developing and testing a model of direct and indirect relationships between individual differences, processing, and multiple-text comprehension

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In this article, the authors test a hypothesized model that specified direct and indirect linkages between the individual difference variables of epistemic beliefs, need for cognition, individual interest, and prior knowledge, the processing variables of effort, deeper-level strategies, and situational interest and multiple-text comprehension.
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This article is published in Learning and Instruction.The article was published on 2014-04-01. It has received 131 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Comprehension & Need for cognition.

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The role of epistemic perspectives in comprehension of multiple author viewpoints

TL;DR: This paper investigated the relation between learners' epistemic perspectives and their comprehension of authors' viewpoints and found that conflict between sources improved viewpoint comprehension only in high levels of multiplism and evaluativism.
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Educating Critical Thinkers: The Role of Epistemic Cognition

TL;DR: The importance of epistemic cognition for critical thinking in the 21st century has been recognized by a growing body of intervention research as discussed by the authors, which can reveal how to best position teachers and students to develop the ability to construct, evaluate and use knowledge.
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Cognitive Affective Engagement Model of Multiple Source Use

TL;DR: The CAEM proposes that students' engagement with multiple texts may be explained by the default stance toward task completion they adopt, which is used to explain a host of multiple text use behaviors, and performance outcomes, including text recall and integration.
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Promoting Integration of Multiple Texts: a Review of Instructional Approaches and Practices

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic literature review is presented to examine the current state of knowledge on how intertextual integration can be promoted in educational settings and identify a variety of instructional practices, such as collaborative discussions with multiple texts, explicit instruction of integration, modeling of integration and uses of graphic organizers.
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Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences

TL;DR: The concepts of power analysis are discussed in this paper, where Chi-square Tests for Goodness of Fit and Contingency Tables, t-Test for Means, and Sign Test are used.
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Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis : Conventional criteria versus new alternatives

TL;DR: In this article, the adequacy of the conventional cutoff criteria and several new alternatives for various fit indexes used to evaluate model fit in practice were examined, and the results suggest that, for the ML method, a cutoff value close to.95 for TLI, BL89, CFI, RNI, and G...
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Multivariate Data Analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, a six-step framework for organizing and discussing multivariate data analysis techniques with flowcharts for each is presented, focusing on the use of each technique, rather than its mathematical derivation.
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Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences

TL;DR: In this article, the Mathematical Basis for Multiple Regression/Correlation and Identification of the Inverse Matrix Elements is presented. But it does not address the problem of missing data.
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