Epistemic Cognition as a Psychological Construct: Advancements and Challenges

By B. Hofer. 2016

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On the Goals of Epistemic Education: Promoting Apt Epistemic Performance (2018, background): “Research on epistemic cognition has advanced several paradigmatic models of lay epistemology, which provide a natural starting point for positing goals for epistemic education (Hofer, 2016; Hofer & Bendixen, 2012).”
Evaluating sources of scientific evidence and claims in the post-truth era may require reappraising plausibility judgments (2020, background): “What was once a “crack-pot” theory your cousin told you at dinner, is now a movement with a Twitter following, a website, a podcast, and possibly even a political action group (Sinatra & Jacobson, 2019).”
Changing Teachers' Epistemic Cognition: A New Conceptual Framework for Epistemic Reflexivity (2017, background): “Hofer and Pintrich proposed that each of the separate but likely related dimensions of beliefs could be considered to reflect a continuum from naïve to more advanced beliefs, thus reflecting the development of beliefs as portrayed by models such as Kuhn and Weinstock’s (2002). However, this classifi”