Domain specificity of personal epistemology: Resolved questions, persistent issues, new models

By B. Hofer. 2006

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Examining the Relationship Between Students’ Understanding of the Nature of Models and Conceptual Learning in Biology, Physics, and Chemistry (2011, result): “Prior work in the broader area of epistemology (defined as nature of knowledge) has shown that there are differences across domains (Hofer, 2006a, 2006b; Muis, Bendixen, & Haerle, 2006), and thus, is compatible with our findings regarding the nature of models.”
Reconsidering Personal Epistemology as Metacognition: A Multifaceted Approach to the Analysis of Epistemic Thinking (2014, background): “Differences between various measures of personal epistemology may result from discrepancies in the generality or specificity of the context in which personal epistemology is measured (Buehl & Alexander, 2006; Hofer, 2006), the fact that different measures tap into different underlying dimensions (e.”
Understanding and Promoting Thinking About Knowledge (2016, background): “led to proposals that people develop domain-specific epistemic theories (Hofer, 2006) that follow the general trend identified by Kuhn et al.”
Knowledge and Epistemological Beliefs: An Intimate but Complicate Relationship (2008, background): “The pro blematic use of the complex term “domain” has been comprehensively discussed by Hofer (2006) and by Limon (2006).”