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Overview

M. Anne Britt is affiliated with Northern Illinois University in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a specific focus on developmental and educational psychology, education, sociology and political science, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence.

The main topics addressed in Britt's work include educational strategies and epistemologies, education and critical thinking development, reading and literacy development, misinformation and its impacts, innovative teaching and learning methods, science education and pedagogy, and visual and cognitive learning processes.

The researcher has contributed to several academic venues, frequently publishing in:

  • Discourse Processes
  • Language and Linguistics Compass
  • Journal of Research in Reading
  • Reading and Writing
  • Instructional Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Britt include:

  • Jean-François Rouet
  • Jennifer Wiley
  • Gastón Saux
  • Nicolas Vibert
  • Amanda M. Durik

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Britt illustrate a focus on text comprehension, multiple document understanding, and reading processes in educational contexts:

  • Multiple Document Comprehension, 2020, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education
  • Building mental models from multiple texts: How readers construct coherence from inconsistent sources, 2021, Language and Linguistics Compass
  • Reading Contexts, Goals, and Decisions: Text Comprehension as a Situated Activity, 2022, Discourse Processes
  • Do you know what you are reading for? Exploring the effects of a task model enhancement on fifth graders' purposeful reading, 2021, Journal of Research in Reading
  • Effects of context and discrepancy when reading multiple documents, 2022, Reading and Writing

Best Publications

  • Improving Students' Ability to Identify and Use Source Information

    M. Anne Britt;Cindy Aglinskas

  • Toward a theory of documents representation.

    Charles A. Perfetti;Jean-François Rouet;M. Anne Britt

  • Disciplinary Literacies and Learning to Read for Understanding: A Conceptual Framework for Disciplinary Literacy.

    Susan R. Goldman;M. Anne Britt;Willard Brown;Gayle Cribb

  • The Role of Epistemic Beliefs in the Comprehension of Multiple Expository Texts: Toward an Integrated Model

    Ivar Bråten;M. Anne Britt;Helge I. Strømsø;Jean-François Rouet

  • Using multiple sources of evidence to reason about history.

    Jean-François Rouet;M. Anne Britt;Robert A. Mason;Charles A. Perfetti

  • Relevance processes in multiple document comprehension.

    Jean-François Rouet;M. Anne Britt

  • Studying and Using Multiple Documents in History: Effects of Discipline Expertise

    Jean-François Rouet;Monik Favart;M. Anne Britt;Charles A. Perfetti

  • Trust Matters: Examining the Role of Source Evaluation in Students' Construction of Meaning Within and Across Multiple Texts

    Ivar Bråten;Helge I. Strømsø;M. Anne Britt

  • Text-based Learning and Reasoning: Studies in History

    Charles A. Perfetti;M. Anne Britt;Mara C. Georgi

  • Reading multiple texts about climate change: The relationship between memory for sources and text comprehension

    Helge I. Strømsø;Ivar Bråten;M. Anne Britt

  • RESOLV: Readers' Representation of Reading Contexts and Tasks.

    Jean-François Rouet;M. Anne Britt;Amanda M. Durik

  • Readers' use of source information in text comprehension

    Jason L. G. Braasch;Jean-François Rouet;Nicolas Vibert;M. Anne Britt

  • Scientific Literacy: The Role of Goal-Directed Reading and Evaluation in Understanding Scientific Information

    M. Anne Britt;Tobias Richter;Jean-François Rouet

  • Argumentation Schema and the Myside Bias in Written Argumentation

    Christopher R. Wolfe;M. Anne Britt;Jodie A. Butler

  • Parsing in discourse: Context effects and their limits

    M.Anne Britt;Charles A Perfetti;Simon Garrod;Keith Rayner

  • Enhancing the Quality of Learning: Learning with Multiple Documents

    M. Anne Britt;Jean-François Rouet

  • Literacy Beyond Text Comprehension: A Theory of Purposeful Reading

    M. Anne Britt;Jean-François Rouet;Amanda M. Durik

  • The locus of the myside bias in written argumentation

    Christopher R. Wolfe;M. Anne Britt

  • Spontaneous Sourcing among Students Reading Multiple Documents.

    Helge I. Strømsø;Ivar Bråten;M. Anne Britt;Leila E. Ferguson

  • Using Hypertext to Study and Reason About Historical Evidence

    M. Anne Britt;Jean-Fran~ois Rouet;Charles A. Perfetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles A. Perfetti
Charles A. Perfetti University of Pittsburgh
Rainer Bromme
Rainer Bromme University of Münster
Helge I. Strømsø
Helge I. Strømsø University of Oslo
Ivar Bråten
Ivar Bråten University of Oslo
Jennifer Wiley
Jennifer Wiley University of Illinois at Chicago
Joseph P. Magliano
Joseph P. Magliano Georgia State University
Susan R. Goldman
Susan R. Goldman University of Illinois at Chicago
Arthur C. Graesser
Arthur C. Graesser University of Memphis
John J. Skowronski
John J. Skowronski Northern Illinois University
David N. Rapp
David N. Rapp Northwestern University

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