Role of epistemological understanding and interest in interpreting a controversy and in topic-specific belief change

By Lucia Mason, P. Boscolo. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education

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Cognitive conflict and situational interest as factors influencing conceptual change (2010, background): “In addition, some questionnaires had low reliability and validity because they consisted of too few items (Chen et al., 2001; Gungor et al., 2007; Mason & Boscolo, 2004).”
Coordinating own and other perspectives in argument (2007, background): “The development of epistemological understanding—of what it means to know something—is an essential foundation for argument (Chandler, Boyes, & Ball, 1990; Kuhn, Cheney, & Weinstock, 2000; Mason & Boscolo, 2004 ).”
The "Warming Trend" in Conceptual Change Research: The Legacy of Paul R. Pintrich (2005, methodology): “Several researchers have examined the role of epistemological beliefs in knowledge change (e.g., Andre & Windschitl, 2003; Gill, Ashton, & Algina, 2004; Mason & Boscolo, 2004; Sinatra et al., 2003; Stathopoulou & Vosniadou, 2004).”
Why Argue? Developing Understanding of the Purposes and Values of Argumentive Discourse (2010, background): “Supporting such a connection is empirical evidence of a relation between argument skills and epistemological understanding (Iordanou, 2009; Kuhn, 1991; Mason & Boscolo, 2004; Mason & Scirica, 2006; Weinstock, Neuman, & Glassner, 2006).”
Personal Epistemology and Culture (2008, background): “A considerable body of research has been conducted in Europe (e.g., Braten et al., 2005; Bromme, 2003; Cano, 2005; Clarebout et al., 2001; De Corte et al., 2002; Mason, 2003b; Mason & Boscolo, 2004; Mason & Scrivani, 2004), with collegial interaction on the topic facilitated through a formal netwo”
Quality Talk: Developing Students’ Discourse to Promote High-level Comprehension (2018, background): “…necessary to engage in critical-analytic thinking or argumentation, nor is it likely they will internalize what they learn during discourse to achieve high-level comprehension (Bråten et al., 2011; Greene et al., 2008; Kuhn et al., 2000; Mason & Boscolo, 2004; Weinstock, Neuman, & Glassner, 2006).”
Knowledge and Epistemological Beliefs: An Intimate but Complicate Relationship (2008, background): “beliefs were the focus of other studies ( Mason & Boscolo, 2004; Schraw , Dunkle, &”
Developing Dialogic Argumentation Skills: A 3-year Intervention Study (2014, background): “…there is growing recognition of the key role of students’ epistemological understanding of argumentation (Driver, Newton, & Osborne, 2000; Ford, 2008; Kuhn, Wang, & Li, 2011; Mason & Boscolo, 2004; Sandoval & Millwood, 2007), as well as development of the skills that have been the focus here.”
Educating Critical Thinkers (2016, background): “…including sixth graders’ poor integration of multiple online information sources (Barzilai & Zohar, 2012), high-school students’ difficulty analyzing controversies regarding genetically modified food (Mason & Boscolo, 2004), and college students’ poor comprehension and course grades (Ryan, 1984).”