Considerations in the design and evaluation of a paper-and-pencil measure of epistemic cognition

Personal Epistemology: The Psychology of Beliefs about Knowledge and Knowing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 277-294

  Wood, Phillip ^a   Kitchener, Karen ^b   Jensen, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

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EID: 84917502690     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203424964     Document Type: Chapter

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