Role of Epistemological Beliefs and Learner Helplessness in Secondary School Students' Learning Science Concepts from Text

Role of Epistemological Beliefs and Learner Helplessness in Secondary School Students' Learning Science Concepts from Text

The relationship between epistemological beliefs and learned helplessness and between conceptual understanding and application reasoning in conceptual change learning were investigated for 212 high school science students. Results support the importance of epistemological beliefs in predicting conce...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of educational psychology 1995, Vol.87 (2), p.282
Hauptverfasser: Qian, Gaoyin, Alvermann, Donna
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Beliefs
Concept Formation
Conceptual Change
Epistemology
Helplessness
High School Students
High Schools
Learning
Science Instruction
Sciences
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Zusammenfassung:The relationship between epistemological beliefs and learned helplessness and between conceptual understanding and application reasoning in conceptual change learning were investigated for 212 high school science students. Results support the importance of epistemological beliefs in predicting conceptual change learning. Implications for science instruction are discussed. (SLD)
ISSN:0022-0663