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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Consistent Results with the Consistency Hypothesis? The Effects of Epistemic Beliefs on Metacognitive Processing
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Muis, Krista Renee; Kendeou, Panayiota; Franco, Gina M. – Metacognition and Learning, 2011
We explored relations between students' trade; epistemic beliefs, metacognitive monitoring and recall performance in the context of learning physics through metaphor. Eighty-three university undergraduate students completed questionnaires designed to measure their epistemic beliefs and prior knowledge about Newtonian physics. Students were…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Protocol Analysis, Figurative Language, Prior Learning
Epistemic Profiles and Metacognition: Support for the Consistency Hypothesis
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Muis, Krista R.; Franco, Gina M. – Metacognition and Learning, 2010
Relations were examined between epistemic profiles, metacognition, problem solving, and achievement in the context of learning in an educational psychology course. Two hundred thirty-one university students completed self-report inventories reflecting their epistemic profiles and use of metacognitive strategies, and were epistemically profiled as…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Protocol Analysis, Problem Solving, Metacognition