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Dreyfus, Benjamin W.; Hoehn, Jessica R.; Elby, Andrew; Finkelstein, Noah D.; Gupta, Ayush – International Journal of STEM Education, 2019
Background: While there has been increasing recognition of the importance of attending to students' views about what counts as knowing and learning a STEM field, surveys that measure these "epistemological" beliefs are often used in ways that implicitly assume the fields, e.g., "physics," to be a single domain about which…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Science Education, Quantum Mechanics
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Elby, Andrew – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2009
Some researchers, including B. K. Hofer and P. R. Pintrich (1997) and W. A. Sandoval (2005), argue for defining "personal epistemology" as views about the nature of knowledge and knowing but not views about the nature of learning. Others continue using a more expansive definition of "personal epistemology" that includes views about learning. I…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Epistemology, Definitions, Learning