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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Belief change"”.
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Belief Change in Reasoning Agents
The capability of changing beliefs upon new information in a rational and efficient way is crucial for an intelligent agent. Belief change therefore is one of the central research fields in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for over two decades. In the AI literature, two different kinds of belief change …
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An Empirical Investigation for Patterns of Belief Change in Human Reasoning
… is consistent with non-monotonic logic and belief change. The former refers to models of reasoning where previously drawn conclusions can be retracted when adding new information. The latter refers to the operations of revising and updating a set of beliefs, respectively, when presented with …
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Probing the Probabilistic Reasoning and Belief Change Abilities of Preschool-Age Children
… to build and dynamically revise their beliefs. Past literature has generally investigated the belief change abilities of children using deterministic, experimenter-generated evidence in the lab (e.g., Bonawitz et al., 2019; Kimura & Gopnik, 2019; Macris & Sobel, 2017). Little is known …
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Belief change in probabilistic knowledge representations for open and dynamic computing environments
… network structure. However, in the literature on Belief Change in Probabilis tic Knowledge Representations, theory refinement is only thought of as a change in the model parameters when data consistent with the Network structure is observed. Such Belief Change is not rich enough to capture the …
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Personality Factors and Attitude and Belief Change From Various Types of Communications
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Belief change in ESL student teachers during a master's- level teaching practicum
Teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning greatly influence their classroom practices. This is particularly evident in an English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching practicum, where student teachers are exposed to new practices and react to them based on their current beliefs about teaching. …
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A Bayesian Information Processing Approach to Belief Change in A Role-Playing Situation
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Source Credibility and Belief Change: An Analysis of Two Psychological Models of Persuasion
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THE ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISCREPANCY IN BELIEF CHANGE: TESTING FOUR MODELS WITH A SINGLE MESSAGE
In belief change, message discrepancy is the difference between the belief position advocated in a message and a message receiver’s initial belief position. Psychological discrepancy is the message discrepancy experienced by the receiver. Existing literature had assumed that a high level of …
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Imagination at the progressive border: can fantasy literature foster a liminal space for social justice-oriented narrative-based belief change in the individual?
… which it can introduce ideas about progressive change. Drobot (2019) also suggests that fantasy novels help us think about the past and how societal beliefs and values have changed and can still change. All of the aforementioned argue that fantasy stories can lead to shifts in what individuals …
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Rejecting White Racist Ideology: Holistic, Psychological, and Sociological Factors Operating in the Life and Practice of Two White European American Literacy Teachers
This research informs the extant literature on belief change concerning race among White European American pre- and in-service teachers, as well as literacy instructional practice recommended for students of color. Implications for future research are posited on anti-racist teacher education …
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Teaching Science for Social Justice: An Examination of Elementary Preservice Teachers' Beliefs
This qualitative study examines the beliefs and belief changes of eleven elementary preservice teachers about teaching science for social justice. Using constructivist grounded theory, it forwards a new theory of belief change about teaching science for social justice. The theory posits that three …
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Skepticism avoided
… the value of knowledge, and the role of belief in rational action. In the first chapter, I examine the following skeptical argument: Something is justified only if justified by a justified thing; circular and infinite chains of justification are illegitimate; therefore, no belief is …
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Examing the new education experiment in China: An exploratory study of participating teachers' changed view of comprehensive efficacy
… demographic and contextual factors, and their changed view of comprehensive efficacy as a result of NEE implementation. It is hypothesized that teachers' backgrounds (demographic and contextual variables), and number of years and level of NEE participation would directly contribute to the …
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Community, word and wonder: discerning key elements in the faith inquiry of Chinese international students
… religious transnational collaboration and interchange on campus. Amid the growing discourse on international student issues within the academy, including the engagement and apparent interest in Christianity among Mainland Chinese students, research on their actual interaction with Christianity …
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Multilingual Teachers and Teachers of Multilinguals: Investigating Pre-Service Teachers’ Multilingual-Identity and Belief Development during Teacher Education and Training
… teachers’ multilingual identities and their beliefs about multilingualism during initial teacher education and training in England. Participants’ multilingual identities and beliefs about multilingualism were explored at different time points using various quantitative and qualitative …
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Developing beliefs and practices regarding vocabulary teaching through a dialogic approach for professional development: A case study of English language teachers in Hong Kong
Given the fundamental role beliefs play in guiding what individuals think and do, it is important to understand teachers’ beliefs and their development in order to facilitate professional growth, which in turn has the potential to promote effective teaching and learning. While research efforts have …