This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and
methodological approaches to the study of personal epistemology from a psychological and …

Hofer and Bendixen discuss personal epistemology, take the reader further in the
understanding of how individuals' conceptions of knowledge and knowing influence …

The ideas that individuals hold about knowledge and knowing have been the target of
research programs with disparate names, such as epistemological beliefs, reflective …

This commentary brings together a collection of articles that addresses several of the
important issues in research on personal epistemology. We also propose a more integrated …

In our most mundane encounters with new information and in our most sophisticated
pursuits of knowledge, we are influenced by the beliefs we hold about knowledge and …

Beliefs that individuals hold about knowledge and knowing, or what has been termed
“personal epistemology”, are related to learning and achievement in complex ways. These …

A growing body of work addresses the nature of epistemological development and
epistemological beliefs: how individuals come to know, the theories and beliefs they hold …

Since Perry first proposed that students' beliefs about knowledge and knowing were an
important aspect of learning, there has been a proliferation of models of epistemic cognition …

What is knowledge? How do we know what we know? What influence might this set of
beliefs have on how we think, reason, and learn? To offer a simple example, when I was …

Personal epistemology is the study of beliefs associated with knowledge and knowing. A
large body of theory and research in personal epistemology has been dedicated to college …