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50 Years of ERIC
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Motivation and Performance Differences in Students' Domain-Specific Epistemological Belief Profiles
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Buehl, Michelle M.; Alexander, Patricia A. – American Educational Research Journal, 2005
Cluster analysis and analysis of variance procedures were used to identify students' domain-specific epistemological belief profiles and to examine differences in students' beliefs, motivation, and task performance. Four hundred eighty-two undergraduates completed measures regarding their beliefs about knowledge, competency beliefs, and…
Descriptors: Profiles, Multivariate Analysis, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement
Persuasion as a Dynamic, Multidimensional Process: An Investigation of Individual and Intraindividual Differences
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Murphy, P. Karen; Alexander, Patricia A. – American Educational Research Journal, 2004
Persuasion is an interactive process through which a given message alters individuals' perspectives by changing the knowledge, beliefs, or interests that underlie those perspectives. Although persuasion is seen as central to effective teaching and learning, there is still much to understand about the characteristics of learners, texts, and tasks…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Reading Materials, Individual Differences, Undergraduate Students
Training in Analogical Reasoning.
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Alexander, Patricia A.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1987
Experiments involving a componential approach to analogy training were conducted with 36 fourth, 34 eighth, and 96 tenth graders. Results indicate a significant positive effect on all students' verbal analogy skills and no significant effect on fourth graders' inferential skills. In-class training and reading/language arts instruction implications…
Descriptors: Analogy, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Conceptions of Knowledge and Beliefs: A Comparison across Varying Cultural and Educational Communities.
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Alexander, Patricia A.; Dochy, Filip J. R. C. – American Educational Research Journal, 1995
Views on the concepts of knowledge and beliefs were compared for 54 adults in the United States and 66 in Europe (primarily in the Netherlands). Differences related to the definition of and relationship between knowledge and beliefs were identified, with European respondents tending to be more diverse in their viewpoints. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Beliefs, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation
How Subject-Matter Knowledge Affects Recall and Interest.
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Alexander, Patricia A.; Schulze, Sharon K.; Kulikowich, Jonna M. – American Educational Research Journal, 1994
Examined the influence of subject matter knowledge on students' recall of and interest in scientific exposition by assessing the topic knowledge and domain knowledge of 209 college students reading 2 passages from the physics domain. Findings tend to support a three-stage model of domain learning with an interactive picture of knowledge, recall,…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Models