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Ömer Acar – Educational Studies, 2024
Relationships between students' grade-level, epistemic beliefs, metacognition, and science achievement were investigated separately for low and high-achieving schools. A total of 587 students in low achieving schools and 600 students in high achieving schools from fifth, sixth, and eighth grades constituted the study sample. Exploratory and…
Descriptors: Instructional Program Divisions, Epistemology, Beliefs, Metacognition
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Alpaslan, Muhammet Mustafa – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The purpose of the study was to determine the level of the relationship among Turkish elementary school students' personal epistemologies, motivation, learning strategies, and achievements in science. A total of 322 fifth-grade students participated in the study. Results from the structural equation modeling showed that students' personal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Epistemology, Self Management
Koh, Ming Wei – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study evaluates the effects of an interdisciplinary standards-based school garden-based education program on student learning. The objective of the program is to help students learn to be self-directed learners, community contributors, complex thinkers, quality producers, effective communicators, and effective/ethical users of technology. For…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Gardening, Elementary School Students, Focus Groups
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Fritz, Barbara Smolej; Peklaj, Cirila – International Journal of Music Education, 2011
The aim of our study was determine how students regulate their learning in music theory (MT). The research is based on the socio-cognitive theory of learning. The aim of our study was twofold: first, to design the instruments for measuring (meta)cognitive and affective-motivational processes in learning MT, and, second, to examine the relationship…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Music Education, Music, Educational Practices
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Zito, Jennifer R.; Adkins, Mary; Gavins, Marva; Harris, Karen R.; Graham, Steve – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2007
Research investigating how students who struggle with learning, as well as typically achieving students, can develop powerful self-regulation and academic strategies has become a major endeavor in both general and special education. In this article, we examine how one model of cognitive strategies instruction, Self-Regulated Strategy Development…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Learning Strategies, Self Management, Learning Theories
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Mason, Lucia; Boldrin, Angela; Zurlo, Giovanna – International Journal of Educational Research, 2006
This article reports a theoretically based study on the model of development of epistemological understanding proposed by Kuhn (2000) [Kuhn, D. (2000). Theory of mind, metacognition, and reasoning: A life-span perspective. In P. Mitchell & K. J. Riggs (Eds.), "Children's reasoning and the mind" (pp. 301-326). Hove, UK: Psychology…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Cognitive Development, Epistemology, Curriculum