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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"epistemological beliefs"”.
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The nature of epistemological beliefs about learning
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Assessing University Students' Epistemological Beliefs About Foreign Language Learning
Concept mapping, criterion-referenced language test development, and web-based data collection were successfully used in this research design as methods of increasing the reliability and validity of the FLBS-E. Suggestions are given for future use of these and other combinations of …
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Epistemological congruency in community college classrooms: effects of epistemological beliefs on students experiences
… of this mixed 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 …
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Examining college students’ epistemological beliefs and mindset of intelligence and their association with learning motivations
… studies investigated mindset of intelligence and epistemological beliefs and reported significant effects on students’ motivation. Even though mindset of intelligence and epistemological beliefs are two separate constructs, these constructs are likely related and coexisted as a system of beliefs. …
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Investigating Preservice and Practicing Teachers' Epistemological Beliefs: An Exploration of Relationships Between Beliefs and Communities
… nature of preservice and practicing teachers' epistemological beliefs (i.e., beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning) and to look for relationships between those beliefs and membership in various professional and family subcultures.
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A Cross-Cultural Study of Epistemological Beliefs and Moral Reasoning Between American and Chinese College Students
… study investigated the cultural differences of epistemological beliefs and moral reasoning between American and Chinese college students (<em>N</em>=452) recruited from three universities, Old Dominion University in the eastern United States, Luoyang Normal University in the central China and …
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Designing games for learning: An investigation of instructional designers, game designers, and teachers design decisions and epistemological beliefs
… examining the instructional design decisions and beliefs of individuals involved in the design, development, or implementation of serious games in education or training environments, through a web-based survey. Within the serious game community there are multiple approaches to designing learning …
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Relationships of student gender, personal epistemological beliefs, science self-efficacy, attitude, and subjective norms to intended science class enrollment
… portion of additional variance. Examination of beliefs underlying attitudes and subjective norms suggests that for physics enrollments to increase, students need to feel that they would be successful if they took a physics class, class activities must be enjoyable for male and female students, …
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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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A Study of the Relationships between Epistemological Beliefs and Self-Regulated Learning among Advanced Placement Calculus Students in the Context of Mathematical Problem Solving
… students’ problem-solving skills. Students’ epistemological beliefs and self-regulated learning (SRL) processing capacity influence mathematical problem-solving prowess. This multiple-case study explored the relationships between epistemological beliefs and SRL processing while advanced …
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African-American and Latino students' beliefs about knowledge and learning
Abstract The present study set out to examine the epistemological beliefs of 1, 224 African-American and Latino college students. The initial purpose of the study was to first validate an existing instrument’s usefulness in measuring the epistemological beliefs of African-American and Latino …
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Personal epistemology: Implications for stress in college students
… study investigated whether college students' epistemological beliefs (i.e. certain knowledge, simple knowledge, fixed ability, quick learning, and omniscient authority) could predict negative stressors and/or reactions to stress in their college experience. Based on responses to two …
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The Impact of a Design-Based Engineering Curriculum on High School Biology: Evaluating Academic Achievement and Student Perceptions of Epistemology, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Determination in Life Science
… may improve academic achievement, alter epistemological beliefs about learning science, and positively influence student perceptions of science self-efficacy and self-determination. This quasi-experimental research study tested these claims by implementing an EDP curriculum within two …
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Personal Epistemological Growth in a College Chemistry Laboratory Environment
… nature of this study was to explore changes in beliefs and lay a foundation for focusing on more specific features of reasoning related to personal epistemological and NOS beliefs in light of specific science laboratory instructional pedagogical practices (e.g., pre- and post- laboratory …
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The Effects of Different Styles of Interaction on the Learning of Evolutionary Theories
… a new evolutionary problem. Third, analyses of epistemological beliefs and critiques of evolutionary explanations suggested that the Mutual Constructive style and the Conflicting style facilitated the development of critical thinking more than the Guiding style.
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Preservice teachers' preconceptions about the role of the computer in learning and teaching
… computers in education, computer proficiency, beliefs about effective computer use, and epistemological beliefs. The results of this research study revealed several factors that significantly effected preservice teachers' ability to conceptualize advanced ways of using the computer in the …
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Using the Community of Practice Framework to Examine Informal Science Educators' Epistemological and Pedagogical Beliefs in Informal Science
… and pedagogical practices revealed and (2) the epistemological and pedagogical beliefs of formal science educators, who hold dual positions in the classroom and in an informal science setting. This dissertation includes two studies which are written as articles: (1): the completion of a content …
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