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Does Optimism, Epistemic Beliefs and Problem-Solving Skills Influence Learners’ Attainment in Accounting Concepts? [PDF]
Journal of Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2021 This study investigated the influence of optimism, epistemic beliefs, and problem-solving skills on learners’ attainment in Accounting concepts. The survey design of a descriptive type was adopted to elicit responses from 300 senior secondary school ...
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Belief as a non-epistemic adaptive benefit
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019 Abstract Although rationalization about one's own beliefs and actions can improve an individual's future decisions, beliefs can provide other benefits unrelated to their epistemic truth value, such as group cohesion and identity.
Cunningham , William +2 more
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EFL PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ SELF-EFFICACY AND THEIR EPISTEMIC BELIEFS
English Review: Journal of English EducationNowadays, English is an essential language that must be mastered and has been studied for many years as a foreign language in many countries in the world. Specifically, English pre-service teachers' ability to teach students English as a foreign language
Rida Rohmata Injiya, Ive Emaliana
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Changing epistemic beliefs? An exploratory study of cognition among prospective history teacher
Tempo e Argumento, 2014 This study explores changing epistemic beliefs in the history domain among 18 prospective history teachers. Drawing data from these college undergraduate history majors who were considering teaching careers, the study traces out an exploration of how ...
Bruce VanSledright, Kimberly Reddy
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Research in Psychotherapy, 2023 Ageism is a social issue of growing concern; ageist beliefs can shape the individual and collective experience of aging. The present study aimed to explore positive and negative ageism in young adults (YA) (18-30 years) and adults (AD) (31-60 years) and
Alice Fiorini Bincoletto +3 more
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Epistemically blameworthy belief [PDF]
Philosophical Studies, 2019 AbstractWhen subjects violate epistemic standards or norms, we sometimes judge them blameworthy rather than blameless. For instance, we might judge a subject blameworthy for dogmatically continuing to believe a claim even after receiving evidence which undermines it.
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Belief gambles in epistemic decision theory [PDF]
Philosophical Studies, 2020 Don’t form beliefs on the basis of coin flips or random guesses. More generally, don’t take belief gambles: if a proposition is no more likely to be true than false given your total body of evidence, don’t go ahead and believe that proposition. Few would deny this seemingly innocuous piece of epistemic advice.
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Ethical Foreground and Background in Adult Educator Work
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Adult educators work in a complex ethical environment. The very act of contributing to the learning of another is fraught with moral overtones. In this paper we consider the ethical dimensions of adult educator practice by distinguishing the ethical features of the context or ‘background’ of practice from the ethical capabilities and decision ...
Steven Hodge, Sonal Nakar
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Epistemic Emotions and Epistemic Cognition Predict Critical Thinking About Socio-Scientific Issues
Frontiers in Education, 2021 When thinking critically about socio-scientific issues, individuals’ expectations about the nature of knowledge and knowing, as well as their emotions when these expectations are met or not, may play an important role in critical thinking. In this study,
Krista R. Muis +3 more
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Pragmatic Encroachment: An Epistemic Explanation in favor of Religious Beliefs. [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2019 In this article, we address the role of pragmatic considerations in knowledge and, in particular, religious knowledge, as one of the challenging topics in epistemology and religious epistemology, and suggest a different model for the relation between ...
Ali Kalani Tehrani +1 more
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