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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Epistemic beliefs"”.
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The epistemic beliefs of novice and expert college professors
… that when teachers have sophisticated epistemic beliefs, they are more likely to adopt constructivist teaching beliefs and behaviours. In order to explore the belief sophistication of teachers, the goal of the current research is to compare different types of experiences common to CEGEP …
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The relationship between epistemic beliefs and knowledge contribution to online communities of practice
Epistemic beliefs refer to individual beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between individuals’ levels of expertise, epistemic beliefs, and their contributions to an online community of practice. The studied community was …
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Relationship of Teacher Epistemic Beliefs, Perceived Barriers to Technology Use, and Integration of Educational Technology
Teacher beliefs about the nature of the teaching and learning process help teachers frame or define the teaching task at hand, so in order to understand teaching and teacher decision-making from a teacher's perspective we need to understand the beliefs used to frame how they teach. This is true for …
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Dialogic education, historical thinking and epistemic beliefs: a design-based research study of teaching in Taiwanese classrooms
… aim was to explore both teachers’ and students’ epistemic beliefs regarding the domain of history, which has been largely neglected in this field of study. The aim of this research was also to propose a new perspective on dialogic education that might not only bridge the dichotomy of the …
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Abductive reasoning and limitations of the knower
Previous research has shown that a person’s epistemic beliefs, cognitive style, and religiosity affect the level at which they are able to reason about a variety of topics. These studies have primarily focused on ill-structured, existential, and moral problems. This study examined the effects of …
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Understanding the epistemology-learning connection when exploring an ill-structured task using the Internet
… the role of activating learners' task-oriented epistemic beliefs in affecting their knowledge exploration processes. When covariates (i.e., prior content knowledge, verbal comprehension, effort investment, and learning time) were controlled, hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to …
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STUDYING EPISTEMIC COGNITION IN THE HISTORY CLASSROOM: CASES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING TO THINK HISTORICALLY
Building on the literature on epistemic cognition, epistemic beliefs, and historical thinking, three class-level case studies were conducted to investigate features of historical thinking and history-specific epistemic beliefs of high-school students and their teachers. These cases also considered …
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Consumers and Makers: Exploring Opposing Paradigms of Millennial College Readiness
… the past two decades have culminated in opposing epistemic paradigms of college readiness, where millennial students’ conceptual understanding of “learning” is both narrowed to meet the demands of school systems bound to accountability and amplified by a rapidly evolving digital world. The …
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Investigating a Relationship of a Perception of Agency in Task Based Discourse and Change in Concepts: A Practitioner Research in Education
… The particular concepts selected for study are epistemic beliefs about knowledge in history. A hypothesis that there is a relationship between a perception of agency in task based discourse and change in concepts is proposed for research on the basis of a review of Kuhn's arguments for paradigm …
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Hypertext navigation: Nonlinearity of exploration and its correlates
… things as verbal aptitude, prior knowledge, and epistemic beliefs and preferences. Also, this study examined the effects on navigation patterns of stage of practice of hypertext exploration, and the differences in navigation patterns between subjects who started off with a concept about hypertext …
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A study of hypertext document structure and individual differences: Effects on learning performance
… versus field-independence, and (b) epistemic beliefs and preferences: simple versus complex.
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The input objection: Bane of coherence theory
… claims that the justification of empirical beliefs is based solely on internal relations. This claim gives rise to the input objection, which states that pure coherentism allows empirical justification to be cut off from the world. Laurence BonJour and Michael Williams attempt to rebut the …
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‘Is That Enough?’ An examination of the conceptual metaphors post-primary pre-service teachers use to make sense of collaborative learning
… alignment of the conversation away from epistemic engagement and development, commonly exhibiting discomfort with epistemic authority. This phenomenon was echoed in the emergence of a system of cognitive metaphors which structurally provided for conceptualising their collaboration task, …
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The Relationship Between Implicit Theories of Intelligence, Epistemological Beliefs, and the Teaching Practices of In-service Teachers: A Mixed Methods Study
… methods study was to examine the role teachers' beliefs play when making instructional decisions. The population included in-service teachers representing four Career and Technical Education disciplines located within the commonwealth of Virginia. Using a stratified random sample, 622 teachers …
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The Intellectual Impact of Interdisciplinarity: A Series of Studies of Graduate Students and Faculty Engaged in Interdisciplinary Scholarship
… training affect doctoral students' epistemic beliefs, that is, how they view the construction of knowledge and the nature of scholarship; (b) what faculty learn from engaging in interdisciplinary research initiatives, and what tools mediate this interdisciplinary learning process; …
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Epistemological congruency in community college classrooms: effects of epistemological beliefs on students experiences
… method study was to explore epistemological beliefs of students as well as those of their instructors to determine how epistemological congruence or incongruence shapes students’ experiences. The term, “epistemological congruency” is introduced to conceptualize the similarities or differences …
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Assessment matters: a critical appraisal of assessment practice in higher education with a particular focus on enhancing student understanding of standards and criteria
… refocuses on the individual, examining students’ epistemic beliefs and ways of knowing and how these influence student perspectives on and approaches to assessment and feedback, and in so doing highlight the diversity of individual perspectives and some of the limitations of the culturalist …
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Epistemic Injustice Toward Women in Engineering
… theory of knowledge and knowing-and other epistemic theories are gaining popularity in the EER community, and researchers are looking to the epistemic dimensions of engineering education to understand the cultural foundations of engineering that may not align with policies concerning …