Personal epistemology : the psychology of beliefs about knowledge and knowing / edited by Barbara K. Hofer and Paul R. Pintrich.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Personal Epistemology as a Psychological and Educational Construct: An Introduction / Barbara K. Hofer -- Conceptual Models of Personal Epistemology -- Understanding Learning in a Postmodern World: Reconsidering the Perry Scheme of Ethical and Intellectual Development / William S. Moore -- The Reflective Judgment Model: Twenty Years of Research on Epistemic Cognition / Patricia M. King, Karen Strohm Kitchener -- Revisiting Women's Ways of Knowing / Blythe McVicker Clinchy -- Epistemological Reflection: The Evolution of Epistemological Assumptions from Age 18 to 30 / Marcia B. Baxter Magolda -- An Evolving Theoretical Framework for an Epistemological Belief System / Marlene Schommer-Aikins -- Theoretical and Conceptual Issues -- What Is Epistemological Thinking and Why Does It Matter? / Deanna Kuhn, Michael Weinstock -- Competing Claims About Competing Knowledge Claims / Michael J. Chandler, Darcy Hallett, Bryan W. Sokol -- On the Form of a Personal Epistemology / David Hammer, Andrew Elby -- A Process Model of Epistemic Belief Change / Lisa D. Bendixen -- Mapping Basic Issues for Identifying Epistemological Outlooks / Jill Fitzgerald, James W. Cunningham -- Methodological Issues in the Study of Personal Epistemology --

Critical Elements in the Design and Analysis of Studies of Epistemology / Phillip Wood, CarolAnne Kardash -- Development and Validation of the Epistemic Belief Inventory (EBI) / Gregory Schraw, Lisa D. Bendixen, Michael E. Dunkle -- Considerations in the design and evaluation of a paper-and-pencil measure of epistemic cognition / Phillip Wood, Karen Kitchener, and Laura Jensen -- Knowing what to believe: the relevance of students' mathematical beliefs for mathematics education / Erik De Corte, Peter Op't Eynde and Lieven Verschaffel -- Beliefs about science: how does science instruction contribute? / Philip Bell and Marcia C. Linn -- Characterizing fifth grade students' epistemological beliefs in science / Anastasia D. Elder -- A comparison of epistemological beliefs and learning from science text between American and Chinese high school students / Gaoyin Qian and Junlin Pan -- Future challenges and directions for theory and research on personal epistemology / Paul R. Pintrich.