Items on epistemological belief were adapted and modified from schommers epistemological questionnaire 1990 and schraw, bendixen and dunkle 2000 epistemic beliefs inventory that assesses students beliefs about simple knowledge, certain knowledge, quick learning, and fixed ability to learn. Keep in mind my definitions are unsourced conjecture based off of experience and intuition, but lets dive. Introduction there is a growing body of evidence showing that personal epistemology is a critical component of student learning hofer, 2001. They have an important role in various processes related to learning, selfregulation and academic achievement, as different authors have highlighted and empirical evidence supports 16. Introduction epistemic beliefs are beliefs about knowledge and its acquisition. A preliminary report of the psychometric properties of the. Epistemological topics discussed include mooreparadoxical phenomena, the surprise exam paradox, logical omniscience and epistemic clo. My work on epistemic logic developed from my research in artificial intelligence. Although these three surveys have been widely used in the. Measuring laypeoples trust in experts in a digital age. Epistemiclogical topics discussed include the language and semantics of basic epistemic logic, multiagent epistemic logic, combined epistemicdoxastic logic, and a glimpse of dynamic epistemic logic. The effect of teachers epistemological beliefs on practice. Developed by schraw, dunkle, and bendixen 1995, and based on the earlier work on schommer 1990, the epistemic beliefs inventory ebi. Apr 02, 2008 the majority of researchers in the field have used the epistemological questionnaire eq.
Students epistemic beliefs ebs influence their general information seeking behavior gisb. Epistemic cognition, defined as the ways that people acquire, justify, and use knowledge, has been a prominent area of scholarship in educational psychology for nearly 50 years. A descriptive quantitative method was used to explore 100 students learning strategies. Previous work has focused on cases in which the truthvalues.
Development and validation of the epistemic belief. Examining the psychometric properties of the epistemic belief. The findings showed that students ebs positively affected their gisb. Epistemic definition of epistemic by merriamwebster. The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between internetspecific epistemic belief dimensions and selfregulated learning activities while using the internet for. Developed by schraw, dunkle, and bendixen 1995, and based on the earlier work on schommer 1990, the epistemic beliefs inventory ebi was designed to measure five constructs concerning the. The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between internetspecific epistemic belief dimensions and selfregulated learning. Earn an online masters degree in organizational performance and workplace learning opwl and online certificates in instructional design, elearning, and performance improvement. Development and validation of the epistemic belief inventory. Methodological issues in the study of personal epistemology. Internetspecific epistemic beliefs and selfregulated. Exploring the understanding of epistemic beliefs and. In study 1, the two tests were translated and applied to a spanishspeaking sample. Dunkle, development and validation of the epistemic belief inventory ebi.
The role of teacher epistemic cognition, epistemic beliefs. Epistemic beliefs of middle and high school students in a. Epistemic definition and meaning collins english dictionary. While epistemology has a long philosophical tradition dating back to ancient greece, epistemic logic is a much more recent development with applications in many fields, including philosophy, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, economics and linguistics. The study participants also responded to the trait anxiety, anger, depression, and curiosity scales of the statetrait personality inventory stpi. Part of thescience and mathematics education commons. Finally, we add a new third measure to those proposed by sabri et al. Typically, del focuses on situations involving multiple agents and studies how their knowledge changes when events occur.
We combined inter and intraindividual approaches to investigate university students biology and psychologyspecific specific epistemic beliefs beliefs about the nature and structure of knowledge. The most widely used instrument is the epistemological questionnaire, which has been criticized for validity, and it has been proposed a new instrument based in the epistemological questionnaire. Apr 07, 20 psychology definition of epistemic value. A preliminary report of the psychometric properties of the epistemic beliefs inventory a,b school of education, north dakota state university, fargo, nd 581086050, usa anita g. This study aimed to examine efl students cognitive processing, notably based on their epistemic beliefs views and learning strategies towards selfdirected online learning. To promote a change in epistemic beliefs in inservice university teachers and a consequent improvement of their teaching methods to encourage students to take a more sophisticated approach to learning their subjects, i explored the relationships between epistemic beliefs and approaches to teaching in a group of 111 lecturers across different disciplines at the university, colombia, south america. Development of the oldenburg epistemic beliefs questionnaire. A quantitative survey on the influence of students epistemic. Schommer, 1990, assuming that general epistemic beliefs serve as a core basis from which contextually based epistemic beliefs derive schommeraikins, 2002.
A crosscultural validation of the epistemic belief. Differences were found among educators based on education level, education program, gender, age, licensure type, and order in which participants. The spanishlanguage version of epistemic belief inventory was applied to 1,785 chilean high school students. Early studies of personal epistemology have focused on its contextually independent nature e.
Epistemic aims are the intended goals of cognition to achieve an epistemic end such as knowledge, understanding, or true beliefs. Preservice teachers tend to devalue general pedagogical knowledge gpk as a valid source for deriving successful teaching practices. First, students in this study selfreported relatively sophisticated epistemic beliefs on the pretest. Measuring epistemic curiosity and its diversive and specific. We expected beliefs that gpk originates from scientific.
The manner in which i learn maths will never change. It is a factor in determining the correct replies, but only when the propositum is irrelevant. In this article, the focus is mainly on the relationships between teachers epistemic beliefs and their pedagogical beliefs. Examining the psychometric properties of the epistemic. This chapter examines adults beliefs about the nature and acquisition of knowledge, or epistemic beliefs, and reports on the ongoing validation of the epistemic beliefs inventory ebi. Knowledge and belief are represented via the modal. An epistemic norm then is going to be a rule guiding your acquisition of beliefs. On the withinperson level, topicspecific multiplism remained a significant predictor of perceived value of gpk for practice. The new questionnaire, the oldenburg epistemic beliefs questionnaire oleq, is based on the epistemic beliefs inventory and includes original ebi items as. The first subscale was labeled expertise and contains six items. To promote a change in epistemic beliefs in inservice university teachers and a consequent improvement of their teaching methods to encourage students to take a more sophisticated approach to learning their subjects, i explored the relationships between epistemic beliefs and approaches to teaching in a group of 111 lecturers across different disciplines at the. Bob elliott school of professional studies faculty of education, queensland university of technology. Epistemic definition is of or relating to knowledge or knowing.
A questionnaire constructed to assess epistemic curiosity ec and perceptual curiosity pc curiosity was administered to 739 undergraduates 546 women, 193 men ranging in age from 18 to 65. The effect of teachers epistemological beliefs on practice by milton huling dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis in science education department of secondary education college of education university of south florida. They completed a 28itemed epistemic beliefs inventory and a researchermade 25itemed general information seeking behavior questionnaire. Dynamic lets just go with the dictionary on that one epistemic from the root word episteme which is a pressu. The psychometric properties of the scores on the epistemic belief inventory were examined using an exploratory factor analysis principal axis factor and confirmatory factor analysis cfa on a total sample of 1,242 elementary school teachers. Though any logic with an epistemic interpretation may be called an epistemic logic, the most widespread type of epistemic logics in use at present are modal logics. Understanding the connection between the authors 2015. Preservice teachers perceived value of general pedagogical. The effect of teachers epistemological beliefs on practice milton david huling university of south florida, milton. Online masters degree instructional design organizational. Research on epistemic beliefs has been hampered by lack of validated models and measurement instruments. We, boise state universitys opwl department, started our online masters degree program. They used the ebi as their basis, but they added new items and considered only four of the five original dimensions source of knowledge, knowledge structure, learning control and speed of learning. Epistemic logical topics discussed include the language and semantics of basic epistemic logic, multiagent epistemic logic, combined epistemic doxastic logic, and a glimpse of dynamic epistemic logic.
In model 4 m4, we exchanged the dindex as a predictor of perceived value of gpk for practice by the absolutism and multiplism dimensions of the epistemic beliefs inventory from peter et al. Items on epistemological belief were adapted and modified from schommers epistemological questionnaire 1990 and schraw, bendixen and dunkle 2000 epistemic beliefs inventory that assesses students beliefs about simple knowledge, certain knowledge, quick learning, and. Epistemic logic is the shining star of reschers provocative trilogy on realism, knowledge, and our cognitive imitations. Researchers have argued that epistemic cognition is a key predictor of many 21st century learning outcomes including critical thinking, scientific literacy, and historical thinking, among others. Validation of the chinese version of the epistemic beliefs. The muenster epistemic trustworthiness inventory meti is composed of three subscales of epistemic trustworthiness that can be applied when researching laypeoples judgments of epistemic trustworthiness in online science communication. Epistemic logic is a subfield of epistemology concerned with logical approaches to knowledge, belief and related notions. A quantitative survey on the influence of students. Kardash, critical elements in the design and analysis of studies of epistemology. Combining intra and interindividual approaches in epistemic.
Epistemic modal logic is a subfield of modal logic that is concerned with reasoning about knowledge. Stoeger 10 highlights the potential for creating a lm composed of epistemic beliefs and proposes a noncomputer based learner model, constructed from fixed questionnaire items e. A total of 278 student teachers from dokuz eylul university, 196 from dumlup. The primary purpose of this study was to reevaluate the. Second, note the role of the respondents epistemic state. An instrument for measuring connotative aspects of epistemological beliefs. The differential development of epistemic beliefs in psychology versus computer science students. A crosscultural validation of the epistemic belief inventory. Epistemic beliefs have been considered as important components of the selfregulatory model. Jun 27, 20 epistemic beliefs have been considered as important components of the selfregulatory model.
The spanishlanguage version of epistemic belief inventory was. Schommer, 1990, although they have used other measures as well, including the epistemic beliefs inventory. Sowa this is a preprint of chapter 23 in epistemic logic. They developed a new tool for use in germany, called the oldenburg epistemic beliefs inventory. Leibniz institute for psychology information, trier, germany. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the computational experiment approach, learning styles, epistemic beliefs, and engagement with the inquiry process on the learning performance of pre. It includes questions that assess the extent to which individuals defer to authority, belief that there are often complex rather than simple answers to questions and so forth. Epistemic decision theory hilary greaves faculty of philosophy, university of oxford hilary. Threefactor structure for epistemic belief inventory. Students with sophisticated epistemic beliefs and those with naive epistemic beliefs differ in their general information seeking behavior. The majority of researchers in the field have used the epistemological questionnaire eq. Epistemic logic stanford encyclopedia of philosophy.
These events can change factual properties of the actual world they are called ontic events. Royb abstract there is a growing body of evidence showing that personal epistemology is a critical component of student learning hofer, 2001. Measuring epistemic curiosity and its diversive and. This article proposes a new test called the eqebi for the measurement of epistemological beliefs, integrating and extending the epistemological questionnaire eq and the epistemic beliefs inventory ebi. In considering how this body of literature can enhance understanding of how students become masters of their learning processes, we will briefly. Learning styles are increasingly being integrated into computationalenhanced earning environments and a great deal of recent research work is taking place in this area.
The present study investigated beliefs about knowledge sources and epistemic beliefs as predictors for students perceived value of gpk. Obviously consistency and other norms connected to logic are going to be important epistemic norms for us, but clearly they arent sufficient all by themselves to help us keep from forming false beliefs. Historically, epistemology has been studied in philosophy as a core area. We expected that university students would perceive the discipline of biology as more absolute and less multiplistic than the discipline of psychology intraindividual perspective. By using spss 19 software, collected data was analyzed.