Ivar Bråten

Ivar Bråten is Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology at the University of Oslo's Department of Education. An internationally recognized scholar, his research examines text comprehension processes, particularly how learners evaluate and integrate information from multiple sources.

Key research areas:

• Epistemic cognition in digital environments
• Source evaluation strategies
• Cross-medium reading comprehension
• Document literacy development

His work has been honored with the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for Text and Discourse (2023) and induction into the Reading Hall of Fame (2019). He serves on editorial boards for leading journals including Journal of Educational Psychology and Reading Research Quarterly.

Major Awards:

• Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, Society for Text and Discourse (2023)
• Fellow, American Educational Research Association (2022)
• Reading Hall of Fame (2019)
• Fellow, Society for Text and Discourse (2018)