Science is of critical importance to daily life in a knowledge society and has a significant influence on many everyday decisions. As scientific problems increase in their number and complexity, so do the challenges facing the public in understanding these issues. Our objective is to focus on 3 of those challenges: the challenge of reasoning about…

Across multiple areas of educational psychology, Paul Pintrich's work was characterized by a (a) press for conceptual clarity, (b) focus on developing and refining measures, (c) conviction that researchers interested in learning and cognition should span K-12 and higher education, (d) attention to discipline and context specificity, and (e)…

Personal epistemology has typically been conceptualized in one of two primary ways: as a cognitive developmental process or as a system of beliefs. The approach that is elaborated here is to conceive of epistemological understanding as a metacognitive process that activates epistemic theories, a multidimensional set of interrelated beliefs about…