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Epistemic Climate and Epistemic Change: Instruction Designed to Change Students' Beliefs and Learning Strategies and Improve Achievement
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Muis, Krista R.; Duffy, Melissa C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of an intervention designed to foster epistemic change over the course of 1 semester. The intervention was based on constructivist teaching practices that incorporated teacher modeling of critical thinking of content, evaluation of multiple approaches to solving problems, and making…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Prior Learning, Self Efficacy, Intervention
Changes in Memory Structure and Retrieval over the Course of Instruction
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Loftus, Elizabeth F.; Loftus, Geoffrey R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Thirty graduate students were asked to produce a type of semantic information; they named psychologists who satisfied certain restrictions. Not only was the speed in responding influenced by the speed in which restrictions were given, but the effect of order differed for advanced and beginning students. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Classification, Graduate Students, Learning Processes, Memory
Instructional Strategies to Help Learners Build Relevant Mental Models in Inferential Statistics.
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Hong, EunSook; O'Neil, Harold F., Jr. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
A mental model analysis was conducted with 27 graduate and 29 undergraduate students in the statistical hypothesis testing domain to determine the nature of relevant mental models that can be taught to novices. Results suggest the efficacy of using separate and diagrammatic strategies in teaching novices introductory hypothesis testing. (SLD)
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing, Instructional Effectiveness