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Meaning of Epistemological Belief Through Online Communication: Exploratory Study

open access: yesProcedia, Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012
Learners’ perceptions of instructional practice may vary depending on their own different epistemological perspectives (Hofer, 2004). In other words, learners’ beliefs about knowing may influence their attitude towards learning-related activities.
Park, Young, Lim, HyunJin
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Belief Revision And Epistemology

Synthese, 2000
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John L. Pollock, Anthony S. Gillies
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Teacher Beliefs and Epistemologies

2021
Teacher beliefs are implicit and explicit suppositions held by educators which have relevance for their professional and instructional practices, interactions with students, and learning processes. They may include beliefs about students, self, learning, knowledge, and knowing.
Ferguson, Leila E., Lunn, Joanne
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The epistemology of belief

Synthese, 1983
By examining the general conditions in which a structure could come to represent another state of affairs, it is argued that beliefs, a special class of representations, have their contents limited by the sort of information the system in which they occur can pick up and process.
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Measurement of Epistemological Beliefs

Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2008
This article proposes a new test (called the EQEBI) for the measurement of epistemological beliefs, integrating and extending the Epistemological Questionnaire (EQ) and the Epistemic Beliefs Inventory (EBI). In Study 1, the two tests were translated and applied to a Spanish-speaking sample.
Xavier G. Ordoñez   +3 more
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Epistemological beliefs of apprentices

Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 2013
Whereas the epistemological beliefs of learners of general subjects has been the focus of many studies in the past, so far, little is known about the beliefs of apprentices on knowledge and the acquiring of knowledge. The present study analysed the first level of epistemological beliefs of students in industrial and technical professions and their ...
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Epistemology and the Psychology of Belief

Monist, 1978
Epistemology has always been concerned with mental states, especially doxastic states such as belief, suspension of judgment, and the like. A signifi cant part of epistemology is the attempt to evaluate, appraise, or criticize alternative procedures for the formation of belief and other doxastic at titudes.
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Epistemological beliefs are standards for adaptive learning: a functional theory about epistemological beliefs and metacognition

Metacognition and Learning, 2009
Empirical studies reveal a close relationship between epistemological beliefs (EBs) and metacognition. For example, more ‘sophisticated’ beliefs are associated with more self-reported monitoring strategies. This relationship is also advocated theoretically. Nevertheless, exactly how and why EBs impact learning is still an open question.
Rainer Bromme   +2 more
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The Epistemology of Beliefs and the Epistemology of Degrees of Belief

1992
Abstract Consider two questions. What propositions are egocentrically rational for you to believe? With what confidence is it egocentrically rational for you to believe a proposition? Each concerns a question of egocentric epistemology.
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