Epistemic Beliefs and Physics Teacher Education

Author:

Zemplén Gábor Á.1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Eötvös Loránd University Institute of Business Economics, , Budapest, Hungary

Abstract

Few people would argue that beliefs about the nature of knowledge and the nature and process of knowing are not relevant for learners as well as teachers of physics. Personal beliefs about learning and knowledge have long been suspected to have important implications for learning and teaching, but there are various, potentially conflicting ways to approach epistemic or epistemological beliefs. After an Introduction, Sec. 11.2 gives an historical and methodological overview of changes in research focus and tools, discussing developmental approaches (Fisher, Perry, Kitchener, and King) as well as multi-dimensional ones (Schommer, Hofer, Pintrich, etc.), and physics-specific applications. With the quick disciplinarization of educational science, the partial uptake of various trends in developmental and cognitive psychology, repeated attempts have been made to refashion the concept of “epistemic beliefs” or to streamline an already proposed construct. Although the developmental and the dimensional research traditions advanced methodologically for over a generation, it remains debated what pertains to epistemologically relevant beliefs and how to measure them. Section 11.3 considers some foundational issues that remain unresolved partly due to ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions. Starting with conceptual issues, followed by a discussion of the experimenter's regress the section lists various factors influencing research before an analysis of some of the measurement tools, including questionnaire-items with Likert-scale. Section 11.4 lists further potential avenues for research.

Publisher

AIP Publishing LLCMelville, New York

同舟云学术

1.学者识别学者识别

2.学术分析学术分析

3.人才评估人才评估

"同舟云学术"是以全球学者为主线,采集、加工和组织学术论文而形成的新型学术文献查询和分析系统,可以对全球学者进行文献检索和人才价值评估。用户可以通过关注某些学科领域的顶尖人物而持续追踪该领域的学科进展和研究前沿。经过近期的数据扩容,当前同舟云学术共收录了国内外主流学术期刊6万余种,收集的期刊论文及会议论文总量共计约1.5亿篇,并以每天添加12000余篇中外论文的速度递增。我们也可以为用户提供个性化、定制化的学者数据。欢迎来电咨询!咨询电话:010-8811{复制后删除}0370

www.globalauthorid.com

TOP

Copyright © 2019-2024 北京同舟云网络信息技术有限公司
京公网安备11010802033243号  京ICP备18003416号-3