Seven-text climate change reading task with conflicting source documents¶

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Description¶

The reading task comprised seven separate one-page texts about different aspects of climate change: a neutral textbook excerpt plus six texts with partly conflicting information on causes, consequences, and solutions to global warming, drawn from sources including newspapers, a research magazine, a pollution control authority, and an oil company. Readability scores ranged from 41 to 61 with a mean of 47.6, which the authors say "suggesting that the reading material represented a sufficient challenge for the participants and was well suited for eliciting effortful, strategic processing." Source, author, credentials, and date were printed on each text.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

Texts presented in random order; participants instructed to imagine writing a report based on the texts

Constraints¶

Used with Norwegian education undergraduates reading to construct arguments in the subsample condition

Target Learners¶

higher education undergraduates

Learning Goals¶

multiple-text comprehension
integration of information across sources

Claims¶

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

Ivar Bråten & Helge I. Strømsø. (2011). Measuring strategic processing when students read multiple texts. Metacognition Learning 6:111–130. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-011-9075-7

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Field	Value
`type`	`design`
`id`	`seven-text-climate-change-reading-task`
`title`	`Seven-text climate change reading task with conflicting source documents`
`description`	`The reading task comprised seven separate one-page texts about different aspects of climate change: a neutral textbook excerpt plus six texts with partly conflicting information on causes, consequences, and solutions...`
`status`	`review`
`generated`	by `process:settle-candidates` on `2026-10-19`
`trust`	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
`sources`	1 — `ivar-bråten-helge-i-strømsø-2011`

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