Hefter, Markus H. and Renkl, Alexander and Riess, Werner and Schmid, Sebastian and Fries, Stefan and Berthold, Kirsten (2015) Effects of a training intervention to foster precursors of evaluativist epistemological understanding and intellectual values. LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION, 39. pp. 11-22. ISSN 0959-4752,
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Kuhn (2001) proposed two crucial prerequisites for the will to engage in argumentative thinking: Evaluativist epistemological understanding that provides the base for regarding argumentative thinking reasonable and intellectual values that reflect the extent to which people regard intellectual engagement as being worthwhile. Against this background, we developed a computer-based training intervention in the domain of ecology to foster precursors of evaluativist epistemological understanding and intellectual values as well as conceptual knowledge about epistemological understanding and intellectual values. We tested the training intervention in a control-group experimental design at two points of time: immediately after the intervention and one week later. Participants were 66 German high school students (35 female; mean age = 18.21). We found positive effects of our training intervention on epistemic orientation, intellectual values, and conceptual knowledge that were (still) observable after one week. Overall, the present computer-based training intervention can be regarded as a promising first step on the way to fostering important prerequisites of the will to engage in argumentative thinking. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ARGUMENTATION SKILLS; MULTIPLE REPRESENTATIONS; PERSONAL EPISTEMOLOGY; INSTRUCTION; BELIEFS; KNOWLEDGE; EXAMPLES; SELF; PROMPTS; Training intervention; Argumentative thinking; Evaluativist epistemological understanding; Epistemic orientation; Intellectual values; Conceptual knowledge |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 370 Education |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Pädagogik |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jun 2019 06:24 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jun 2019 06:24 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/4796 |
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