Explanations play an important role in learning and inference. People often learn by seeking
explanations, and they assess the viability of hypotheses by considering how well they …

Children may be biased toward accepting information as true, but the fact remains that
children are exposed to misinformation from many sources, and mastering the intricacies of …

ABSTRACT The Next Generation Science Standards and other reforms call for students to
learn science‐as‐practice, which I argue requires students to become epistemic agents …

Psychological and educational researchers have developed a flourishing research program
on epistemological dimensions of cognition (epistemic cognition). Contemporary …

Understanding how science students respond to anomalous data is essential to
understanding knowledge acquisition in science classrooms. This article presents a detailed …

" This is overwhelmingly a valuable book-particularly in the context of science education in
the UK. It is a book that deserves to be read more widely by science teachers, particularly …

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and
methodological approaches to the study of personal epistemology from a psychological and …

This article presents the results of an experiment which investigated elementary school
children's explanations of the day/night cycle. First, third, and fifth grade children were asked …

The model's second component consists of a person's epistemic ideals, which are the
standards that a person uses to evaluate whether epistemic ends have been achieved. For …

Research on “epistemological beliefs” has made important contributions to education, most
fundamentally in identifying epistemology as a category of informal knowledge that may play …