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Developing and Validating a Measure of Epistemic Competence Beliefs to Examine Undergraduate Students' Critical-Analytic Thinking in a Multiple Source Use Task

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Eric Cornelis Schoute – ProQuest LLC, 2024

The aim of this dissertation was to develop and validate a novel Epistemic Competence Beliefs Measure (ECBM) in order to explore students' ability to evaluate the characteristics of scenarios about complex and controversial social issues. Epistemic competence was hypothesized to be critical in performing multiple source use (MSU) tasks and in the…

Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Predictive Validity, Content Validity, Undergraduate Students