predicting students’ need for cognition based on personality characteristics and epistemological beliefs

Students’ Epistemological Beliefs and Students’ Learning Experience In a Problem-Based Learning Environment

The role of epistemological beliefs and spiritual intelligence in predicting academic success of students in secondary education

This study examined the role of epistemological beliefs and spiritual intelligence in predicting the academic success of students in secondary education. The numbers of 240 high school students were selected by random sampling and they completed the epistemological beliefs and the spiritual intelligence questionnaires. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regres...

a study on relationship between epistemological beliefs and need for cognition with metacognitive awareness in faculty members of university of mazandaran

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need for cognition: factor structure and gender differences among students

need for cognition scale (ncs) is an instrument for assessing individual’s interest to engage in complex thinking activities and consists both long and short forms. the short form of this scale with 18 items has been used in various researches around the world. the objective of this research was to obtain the factor structure of the persian version of ncs (short form) and study of gender differ...

The Role of Implicit Intelligence Theories, Supporting Autonomy and Epistemological Beliefs in Predicting Academic Engagement of Students

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the implicit intuition of theories, support for autonomy and epistemological beliefs in predicting academic engagement among students. Methods: The research method was descriptive correlational. The statistical population of this study consisted of all students of Payame Noor University of Tabriz in the academic year of 2017-2018. Accor...

Can Technology Support the Development of Students’ Epistemological Beliefs?

There is growing evidence that epistemological beliefs play an important role in student learning (Hofer, 2001). Personal epistemology has been found to influence many aspects of learning such as comprehension, persistence, and engagement (Schommer, 1994). The development of students’ personal epistemology has been described in terms of multidimensional stages that correspond to progressively m...