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Dandotkar, Srikanth; Cruz, Laura E.; Stowell, Jeffrey R.; Britt, M. Anne – Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
Epistemic beliefs are one's assumptions about knowledge and knowing. Given the research in educational psychology that established epistemic beliefs as reliable predictors of student success, we devised a pedagogical intervention to improve students' epistemic beliefs. In this study, we examined the effectiveness of the reflective writing task as…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Undergraduate Students, Reflection
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Dandotkar, Srikanth; Cruz, Laura; Britt, M. Anne – Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
We examined the relationship between the levels of sophistication (high-sophisticated and low-sophisticated) of students' domain general epistemic beliefs and an important component of students' critical thinking skills--their ability to evaluate arguments. Participants evaluated arguments and took an epistemic belief survey before recalling…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Beliefs