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Pratt, Sharon M.; Coleman, Julianne M.; Dantzler, John A. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2023
This convergent mixed-methods study explored the relation between strategies fourth-grade students self-reported to navigate and interpret science texts and their performance on a comprehension posttest. Using Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA), results reveal a higher degree of metacognitive awareness and the ability to orally explain one's…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Network Analysis
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Beghetto, Ronald A.; Baxter, Juliet A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2012
This study had the goal of investigating the association among elementary students' (N = 276) science and math beliefs and the relationship between those beliefs and teachers' ratings of mathematical and science understanding. Results of structural path analysis indicate that in science, intellectual risk-taking (IRT; the willingness to share…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Self Efficacy, Path Analysis, Science Instruction
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Feucht, Florian C.; Bendixen, Lisa D. – Cognition and Instruction, 2010
The current study examines the personal epistemology of fourth-grade elementary school teachers from Germany (n = 10) and the United States (n = 10) to gain a more nuanced understanding of teachers' beliefs about knowledge and knowing through a cross-cultural lens. Analyses of semi-structured interviews reveal similarities and differences in the…
Descriptors: Interviews, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Epistemology