Ways of Knowing and Epistemological Beliefs: Combined effect on academic performance

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The first year university experience: using personal epistemology to understand effective learning and teaching in higher education (2009, background): “A better understanding of such beliefs can assist teachers to work more effectively to help students refine their approaches to studying, to improve their thinking and problem solving skills, and to develop greater appreciation of the perspectives of others ( Schommer-Aikens and Easter 2006 ).”
A Meta-Analytic Review of the Relationship Between Epistemic Cognition and Academic Achievement (2018, background): “Likewise, Schommer-Aikins and Easter (2006) included items such as the following in their measure of epistemic cognition: “Being a good student generally involved memorizing a lot of fact [sic]” (p. 415).”
Modeling Epistemic and Ontological Cognition: Philosophical Perspectives and Methodological Directions (2008, background): “However, in a subsequent article (Schommer-Aikins & Easter, 2006) SchommerAikins included beliefs about the “speed” of learning in her definition of epistemological beliefs, making it unclear where she stands on this issue.”