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Murphy, P. Karen; Alexander, Patricia A.; Greene, Jeffrey A.; Hennessey, Maeghan N. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2012
Recently, research on the role of epistemic beliefs in conceptual change has increased dramatically. The focus of that research has largely been on students' beliefs about knowledge and knowing; that is, how one understands what it means to know. In this article, we consider the characteristics of knowledge and knowing (i.e., epistemic frames)…
Descriptors: Evidence, Psychological Studies, Epistemology, Educational Practices
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Greene, Jeffrey A.; Azevedo, Roger A.; Torney-Purta, Judith – Educational Psychologist, 2008
We propose an integration of aspects of several developmental and systems of beliefs models of personal epistemology. Qualitatively different positions, including realism, dogmatism, skepticism, and rationalism, are characterized according to individuals' beliefs across three dimensions in a model of epistemic and ontological cognition. This model…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Statistical Analysis, Psychometrics, Epistemology