• Learning and instruction with digital media
• Multiple document comprehension
• Beliefs about science
• Collaborative and socially regulated learning
• Motivation

• Data Literacy
• Reading about science in the era of "fake news": how the requester, the task, attitudes towards and knowledge about science influence reading decisions and outcomes
• MultiTex - Transfer: Process-based assessment of multiple documents comprehension (Multiple Documents Literacy)
• MultiTex: Process-based assessment of multiple documents comprehension (Multiple Documents Literacy)
• Knowledge distribution across different documents in individual and collaborative computer-supported learning (with Anne Deiglmayr, Universität Leipzig)
• Multiple Document Comprehension of Dutch university students (with Huib Tabbers, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

On the following pages you can find plain languages summaries of my latest work:

• Am I reading for myself or for the university? The influence of context and beliefs on the selection of documents for further reading
• How are students' beliefs about science related to their knowledge about how science works?
• What role do context and contradictions play in understanding multiple documents?
• How can we measure beliefs about science in university students?
• The role of conceptions of knowledge and knowledge acquisition in the content areas of history and physics in managing mental demands of understanding multiple texts
• Do students understand tasks as we mean them? The understanding of the demands of multiple texts on a topic
• More than reading skills? How comprehension of multiple texts relates to classical reading skills
• Developing a test of comprehension of multiple texts on a topic