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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EPISTEMOLOGICAL BELIEFS AND CONCEPTUAL CHANGE LEARNING
Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2000This article reviews the literature on the relation between secondary school students' conceptual change learning and their epistemological beliefs about science. Researchers have established that students have immature beliefs about the purpose of science, the nature of scientific knowledge, and the notion of scientific facts.
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Conceptual change and epistemological belief framework for web site credibility instruction
Proceedings of the 7th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, 2012This paper describes instructional needs regarding Web-based instruction and reviews a line of research examining students' determinations of Web site credibility. It proposes a framework for instructional interventions that draws upon two research traditions - scientific conceptual change research and epistemological beliefs about Web-based ...
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Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2004
Abstract This study focuses on the influence of high school students’ (10th and 11th grade) epistemological understanding and topic interest on their interpretation of a dual-position expository text about genetically modified food, as well as on the change in their beliefs about the topic.
MASON, LUCIA, BOSCOLO, PIETRO
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Abstract This study focuses on the influence of high school students’ (10th and 11th grade) epistemological understanding and topic interest on their interpretation of a dual-position expository text about genetically modified food, as well as on the change in their beliefs about the topic.
MASON, LUCIA, BOSCOLO, PIETRO
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Teacher-Education Students' Epistemological Belief Change through Collaborative Knowledge Building
The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2010Previous research indicates that epistemological beliefs are related to learning in various ways and have implications for teaching. This study further investigates whether it is possible to change teacher-education students' epistemological beliefs by engaging them in a constructivist way of collaborative knowledge building and learning in an online ...
Hong,Huang-Yao, Lin,Shu-Ping
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British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
Background Although extensive research has examined epistemological beliefs, reflective thinking and learning approaches, very few studies have looked at these three theoretical frameworks in their totality. Aims This research tested ...
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Background Although extensive research has examined epistemological beliefs, reflective thinking and learning approaches, very few studies have looked at these three theoretical frameworks in their totality. Aims This research tested ...
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Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
AbstractCitizen science projects provide non‐scientists with opportunities to take part in scientific research. While their contribution to scientific data collection has been well documented, there is limited research on how participation in citizen science projects may affect their scientific literacy.
C. Aaron Price, Hee‐Sun Lee
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AbstractCitizen science projects provide non‐scientists with opportunities to take part in scientific research. While their contribution to scientific data collection has been well documented, there is limited research on how participation in citizen science projects may affect their scientific literacy.
C. Aaron Price, Hee‐Sun Lee
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Changing Students’ Epistemological Beliefs and Understanding of Basic Concepts on Electric Circuits
Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 2014The encouragement of more mature epistemological beliefs is important to student achievement. This study is about epistemological beliefs of students who are enrolled in introductory electricity, magnetism and waves and their understanding of the basic concepts of electric circuits.
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British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
Background. In recent decades, two lines of research, phenomenographic and meta‐cognitive, have examined students' approaches and epistemological beliefs about learning. To date there has been very little research describing the change in epistemological beliefs in European secondary students, or analysing ...
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Background. In recent decades, two lines of research, phenomenographic and meta‐cognitive, have examined students' approaches and epistemological beliefs about learning. To date there has been very little research describing the change in epistemological beliefs in European secondary students, or analysing ...
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Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2010
Epistemological beliefs refer to an individual’s thinking and beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing. The present study examined two research questions: (1) how do prospective elementary teachers’ epistemological beliefs in science change as a result of instruction specifically designed to improve their epistemological beliefs and (2) what ...
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Epistemological beliefs refer to an individual’s thinking and beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing. The present study examined two research questions: (1) how do prospective elementary teachers’ epistemological beliefs in science change as a result of instruction specifically designed to improve their epistemological beliefs and (2) what ...
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Social Psychology of Education, 2009
The primary aim was to explore and compare the dimensionality of personal epistemology with respect to climate change across the contexts of Norwegian and Spanish students. A second aim was to examine relationships between topic-specific epistemic beliefs and the variables of gender, topic knowledge, and topic interest in the two contexts. Participants
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The primary aim was to explore and compare the dimensionality of personal epistemology with respect to climate change across the contexts of Norwegian and Spanish students. A second aim was to examine relationships between topic-specific epistemic beliefs and the variables of gender, topic knowledge, and topic interest in the two contexts. Participants
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