Personal Epistemology as a Psychological and Educational Construct: An Introduction

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Development and Validation of a Scale for Measuring Instructors' Attitudes toward Concept-Based or Reform-Oriented Teaching of Introductory Statistics in the Health and Behavioral Sciences (2010, background): “Additionally, there is now increasing interest in the effect of teachers’ epistemological beliefs on instruction (Hofer, 2002).”
Transformative Learning as a Metatheory (2016, background): “Epistemology refers to a person’s “beliefs about the definition of knowledge, how knowledge is constructed, how knowledge is evaluated, where knowledge resides, and how knowing occurs” (Hofer, 2002, p. 4).”
Women, Work, and Learning. (2001, background): “Personal epistemology is about one’s belief about knowledge and the ways in which knowledge is managed (Hofer, 2002).”
Changing Teachers' Epistemic Cognition: A New Conceptual Framework for Epistemic Reflexivity (2017, background): “Epistemic cognition influences the extent to which individuals make meaning of and engage with complex problem solving (Hofer, 2002).”