The development of epistemological theories: Beliefs about knowledge and knowing and their relation to learning

Review of Educational Research

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 88-140

  Hofer, Barbara K ^a   Pintrich, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.3102/00346543067001088     Document Type: Article

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