Examining the influences of epistemic beliefs and knowledge representations on cognitive processing and conceptual change when learning physics

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-77

  Franco, Gina M ^a   Muis, Krista R ^a   Kendeou, Panayiota ^b   Ranellucci, John ^a   Sampasivam, Lavanya ^a   Wang, Xihui ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NEAPOLIS UNIVERSITY PAFOS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Cognitive and metacognitive processing strategies; Conceptual change; Epistemic beliefs; Knowledge representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 82455208905     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2011.06.003     Document Type: Article

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