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Interviews Regarding Epistemological Beliefs
2021To identify epistemological beliefs regarding mathematics, an interview study was conducted. The interviewees were selected to represent as broad a sample as possible, ranging from university students (pre-service teachers of mathematics) to in-service teachers, working mathematicians, and full professors (of mathematics and mathematics education).
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Measurement of Epistemological Beliefs
Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2008This 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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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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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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International Journal of Science Education, 2008
This study discusses preservice elementary science teachers’ (PSTs) epistemological beliefs and the relationships among their epistemological beliefs, epistemological world views, and self‐efficacy beliefs. Four hundred and twenty‐nine PSTs who were enrolled in five large universities completed the Schommer Epistemological Questionnaire (SEQ), the ...
Topcu, Mustafa Sami, Yilmaz-Tuzun, Ozgul
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This study discusses preservice elementary science teachers’ (PSTs) epistemological beliefs and the relationships among their epistemological beliefs, epistemological world views, and self‐efficacy beliefs. Four hundred and twenty‐nine PSTs who were enrolled in five large universities completed the Schommer Epistemological Questionnaire (SEQ), the ...
Topcu, Mustafa Sami, Yilmaz-Tuzun, Ozgul
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2020
Chapter 9 discusses two strategies for reducing credence to belief. One grounds credence in the transition of belief, the other grounds credence in the content of belief. Since the former elides the important distinction between being in a state and changing a state, the view is rejected.
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Chapter 9 discusses two strategies for reducing credence to belief. One grounds credence in the transition of belief, the other grounds credence in the content of belief. Since the former elides the important distinction between being in a state and changing a state, the view is rejected.
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Student Motivation and Epistemological Beliefs
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1999AbstractStudents' motivation to learn is related to their epistemological beliefs. Faculty can promote student motivation by designing learning activities that facilitate student development of more sophisticated epistemological beliefs.
Michael B. Paulsen, Kenneth A. Feldman
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Epistemological beliefs of apprentices
Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 2013Whereas 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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The Epistemology of Beliefs and the Epistemology of Degrees of Belief
1992Abstract 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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Epistemology and Belief Change
2001Abstract From a philosophical point of view. AI and computer science are rather sloppy when speaking of knowledge. What they mean by ‘knowledge base’, ‘knowledge system’, and ‘knowledge representation’ does not refer to what is commonly meant by ‘knowledge’. It is widely agreed that if we know rather than just believe that ϕ, then ϕ must
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Epistemological Beliefs and Reflective Judgement
Psychological Reports, 1994We tested the hypothesis that 4 epistemological beliefs, i.e., beliefs about the nature and acquisition of knowledge, proposed by Schommer in 1990, were related to observed differences in epistemological reasoning. Based on their responses to a philosophical dilemma, 125 college undergraduates and graduate students were assigned to 1 of 7 levels of ...
Lisa D. Bendixen +2 more
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