At the start of their first semester, 35 college freshmen were given an interview probing (a) their differentiation of scientists’ ideas from evidence, and hypotheses from theories; (b) their understanding of the inherent uncertainty of scientific knowledge; and (c) their reasoning about scientific controversies. The most common responses were in terms of an epistemology in which scientists’ id...

The purpose of this work was to know the scientific evidence on educational policy in a systematic review from 2018 2020 Latin America. For it, made according PRISMA guidelines articles found Scopus, Scielo, ProQuest and Ebscohost databases. results indicate existence inequalities policies different systems, stating that determining factors are: inclusion equality, importance funding, curriculu...

The present study investigates the combination of an epistemological sensitization and two different critical thinking instructions, i.e., general infusion approach, in context change induced by presentation resolvable scientific controversies. In a randomized study, we tested hypothesis that controversies generally reduces absolutism multiplicism increases evaluativism. We assume these effects...

Cross-cultural research is marked by adopting one of two dominant epistemological paradigms: positivism or constructivism. By discussing strengths/weaknesses inherent in each paradigm, this paper argues that rather than contradictory and incommensurable; positivism and constructivism can be considered complementary epistemological orientations which correspond to two conceptual levels of cultur...

Epistemological holism is usually associated with linguistic holism, and sometimes the latter is inferred from the former. In this chapter I shall show how the view that the sense of a sentence be its immediate argumental role, though it conforms to the requirement of compositionality and hence involves a denial of linguistic holism, is perfectly compatible with epistemological holism. Thus, by...

This explorative pilot-study investigated the relationship between epistemological beliefs, prior knowledge and selfregulated learning with a hierarchical hypertext. Students who varied in their epistemological beliefs and prior knowledge learned about the topic of genetic fingerprinting. Logfiles and questionnaire data were collected. Results indicate that both epistemological beliefs and prio...

Epistemological beliefs are those concerning the nature of knowledge and learning: beliefs about how individuals come to know, and how knowledge is constructed. There is growing evidence in the literature that indicates epistemological beliefs influence students learning, but little research as to how learning environments impact on students’ epistemological beliefs, and hence students’ approac...

Although qualitative inquiry has developed into a popularized and very useful way of conducting research within the health sciences, there has been a relatively disproportionate amount of literature devoted to “who“ is represented in such inquiries. It is most often assumed that the end text should present an objective, value-free, and accurate representation of the participants and therefore e...