Epistemological Beliefs Across Domains Using Biglan's Classification of Academic Disciplines

By M. Schommer-Aikins, O. Duell, S. Barker. 2003

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education

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Different values, different skills? A comparison of essay writing by students from arts and science backgrounds (2005, background): “Research suggests that students majoring in hard fields with a high degree of disciplinary consensus are more likely to subscribe to beliefs in absolute knowledge than those majoring in soft fields, and that these beliefs may be encouraged by aspects of the disciplinary context in which they work (P”
THE CONDITIONAL AND INTERACTION EFFECTS OF EPISTEMOLOGICAL BELIEFS ON THE SELF-REGULATED LEARNING OF COLLEGE STUDENTS: Cognitive and Behavioral Strategies (2005, background): “... which is the ‘‘written instrumentation for measuring personal epistemology that currently has the most widespread use’’ (Hofer 2002, p. 10), has often been used in the study of college students’ epistemological beliefs (Bendixen, Dunkle, and Schraw, 1994; Dahl et al., 2005; Kardash and Howell, 2”
Modeling Epistemic and Ontological Cognition: Philosophical Perspectives and Methodological Directions (2008, unknown): “King and Kitchener's (2004) model has been described as domain-general, and Schommer-Aikins seemed to adopt this stance as well ( Schommer & Walker, 1995 ; Schommer-Aikins, Duell, & Barker, 2003 ).”
Examining the Relationship Between Students’ Understanding of the Nature of Models and Conceptual Learning in Biology, Physics, and Chemistry (2011, background): “Prior research has found that the amount of experience within a particular subject area appears to affect students’ understanding about that domain (Schommer-Aikins et al., 2003); these findings, like ours, would suggest that students’ understanding of models is affected by students’ experiences in…”
Personal Epistemology and Mathematics: A Critical Review and Synthesis of Research (2004, methodology): “Stodolsky (1985) found significant qualitative differences between the mathematics and social studies classes in terms of instructional approach.”
Creencias epistemológicas de dominio específico y general. Efectos sobre la habilidad matemática: Domain Specific and General Epistemological Beliefs. Their Effects on Mathematics (2013, background): “In their within subject study, Schommer-Aikins, Duell, and Barker (2003) compared students’ epistemological beliefs in mathematics, social sciences, and business.”