Collegiate faculty expectations regarding students' epistemic and ontological cognition and the likelihood of academic success

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 230-239

  Greene, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

College faculty; College students; Epistemic cognition; Epistemological beliefs; Personal epistemology

Indexed keywords

EID: 70149102196     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

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