Post-truth epistemic beliefs rooted in the Dark Factor of Personality are associated with higher COVID-19 vaccination refusal [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 A substantial number of people refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19, which prompts the question as to why. We focus on the role of individual worldviews about the nature and generation of knowledge (epistemic beliefs).
Jan Philipp Rudloff +2 more
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Intrinsic Motivation and Sophisticated Epistemic Beliefs Are Promising Pathways to Science Achievement: Evidence From High Achieving Regions in the East and the West [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Research on self-determination theory emphasizes the importance of the internalization of motivation as a crucial factor for determining the quality of motivation. Hence, intrinsic motivation is deemed as an important predictor of learning.
Ching Sing Chai +3 more
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Epistemic beliefs' role in promoting misperceptions and conspiracist ideation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Widespread misperceptions undermine citizens' decision-making ability. Conclusions based on falsehoods and conspiracy theories are by definition flawed.
R Kelly Garrett, Brian E Weeks
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Examining the impact of text style and epistemic beliefs on conceptual change. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Learning can be difficult for students due to incorrect prior knowledge, or misconceptions, interfering with the acquisition of new knowledge. Conceptual change refers to the process of replacing such misconceptions with new and accurate knowledge.
Angele Yazbec +2 more
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Measuring epistemic beliefs about grammar [PDF]
L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature, 2022 In current educational reform much attention is paid to the development of awareness, reflective thinking, and higher order thinking. In language education, the importance of reflectivity for stimulating linguistic awareness and higher order thinking has been emphasized.
Wijnands, Astrid +2 more
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Epistemic Beliefs and Googling
Frontline Learning Research, 2019 With the introduction of internet as a source of information, parents have observed youngsters’ tendency to prefer internet as a source, and almost a reluctance to learn in advance since “you can look it up when needed”.
Tore Ståhl
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Pre-service teachers' perceived value of general pedagogical knowledge for practice: Relations with epistemic beliefs and source beliefs. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Pre-service teachers tend to devalue general pedagogical knowledge (GPK) as a valid source for deriving successful teaching practices. The present study investigated beliefs about knowledge sources and epistemic beliefs as predictors for students ...
Samuel Merk +4 more
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Epistemic beliefs and written historical reasoning: Exploring their relationship
Historical Encounters: A Journal of Historical Consciousness, Historical Cultures, and History Education, 2022 In this descriptive study, we investigated undergraduate students’ epistemic beliefs in history and examined the relationship between students’ beliefs and their performance in written historical reasoning in the context of a historical ...
Kristin A. Sendur +2 more
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Pedagogika, 2023 Epistemic beliefs are gaining increasing importance in social science education in Czechia. Recent literature has demonstrated findings linking epistemic beliefs with various academic skills, including achievement and reading comprehension.
Jaroslav Říčan, Ondřej Pešout
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Against Minimalist Responses to Moral Debunking Arguments [PDF]
, 2020 Moral debunking arguments are meant to show that, by realist lights, moral beliefs are not explained by moral facts, which in turn is meant to show that they lack some significant counterfactual connection to the moral facts (e.g., safety, sensitivity ...
Korman, Daniel Z., Locke, Dustin
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