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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An exploratory study of topic-specific variation in epistemic beliefs among psychology students [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyBackgroundHow individuals conceive knowledge and knowing plays a crucial role in psychology education. While often examined at the domain level, the Theory of Integrated Domains in Epistemology (TIDE) suggests that epistemic beliefs may also vary at the ...
Lynn Adam, Machteld Vandecandelaere
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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 in Science—A Systematic Integration of Evidence From Multiple Studies [PDF]
Educational Psychology Review, 2022 Nele Kampa +2 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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EFL Students’ Speaking Achievement And Its Relationship With Epistemic Beliefs
IJET (Indonesian Journal of English Teaching), 2020 The purpose of the present research is to uncover relationship between English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students' speaking score achievement and their epistemic beliefs.
Ive Emaliana, Kholifatur Rohmah
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Researching epistemic beliefs in history education: A review
Historical Encounters: A Journal of Historical Consciousness, Historical Cultures, and History Education, 2022 Departing from the pioneering work of VanSledright and Maggioni (2016), this article revisits questions about epistemic beliefs and the role these beliefs play in the teaching and learning of history. Eighteen recent studies on epistemic beliefs
Gerhard Stoel +2 more
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Sexual Orientation, Ideology, and Philosophical Method
Journal of Social Ontology, 2020 Here, I examine the epistemic relation between beliefs about the nature of sexual orientation (e.g. beliefs concerning whether orientation is dispositional) and beliefs about the taxonomy of orientation categories (e.g.
Andler Matthew
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