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Peer reviewedPaulsen, Michael B.; Feldman, Kenneth A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1999
Research and theory suggest that college students' motivation to learn is related to their epistemological beliefs. Faculty can promote student motivation by designing learning activities that facilitate student development of more sophisticated epistemological beliefs. Faculty developers can assist in this by giving special attention to the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Epistemology
Kurfiss, Joanne Gainen – 1990
The paper describes four major patterns that emerge in studies of college student intellectual development. Quotations from students' writing about their epistemological beliefs and quotations from professors' writing concerning their courses and students are related to the four patterns. Characteristics of student writing associated with each…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Stages, Epistemology, Higher Education
