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Direct linkDurkin, Kelley; Shafto, Patrick – Child Development, 2016
The epistemic trust literature emphasizes that children's evaluations of informants' trustworthiness affects learning, but there is no evidence that epistemic trust affects learning in academic domains. The current study investigated how reliability affects decimal learning. Fourth and fifth graders (N = 122; M[subscript age] = 10.1 years)…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Trust (Psychology), Child Development, Reliability
Peer reviewedOffenbach, Stuart I. – Child Development, 1980
According to Hypothesis (H) theory, learning should be very difficult when the number of Hs the subject samples from is very large and/or the correct H is not available. These assumptions were tested with third- and fourth-grade children. In general, results supported these assumptions. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Failure
