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Epistemic beliefs and achievement goal orientations: Relations between constructs versus personal profiles

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  • Nir Madjar
  • Michael Weinstock
  • Avi Kaplan

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Research has found students' epistemic beliefs to predict their achievement goal orientations. Much of this research emerged from the dimensional approach of epistemic beliefs, which hypothesized a relationship between particular independent dimensions of epistemic beliefs with different achievement goals. Research in this approach has primarily applied a variable-centered approach to investigating these relations. The authors adopt an alternative conceptualization of epistemic beliefs, which considers epistemic beliefs and achievement goals as orthogonal to each other, and which favors a profile-centered approach to researching their relations. They hypothesized that while a variable-centered analysis would identify relations between epistemic beliefs and achievement goal orientations, a profile-centered analysis would demonstrate the independence of these psychological constructs. In three studies with high school students (ns = 256, 149, 250) the authors demonstrate that epistemic beliefs and achievement goals form different personal profiles that are differentially related to learning strategies.

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  • Nir Madjar & Michael Weinstock & Avi Kaplan, 2017. "Epistemic beliefs and achievement goal orientations: Relations between constructs versus personal profiles," The Journal of Educational Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 110(1), pages 32-49, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:vjerxx:v:110:y:2017:i:1:p:32-49
    DOI: 10.1080/00220671.2015.1034353
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    1. Natalia Żyluk & Karolina Karpe & Mariusz Urbański, 2022. "The Development of Epistemological Understanding Revisited: Enhancing Reliability of the Tool by Using Only Abstract Items," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(2), pages 21582440221, April.
    2. Yunzhen Liang & Liling Ren & Chun Wei & Yafei Shi, 2023. "The Influence of Internet-Specific Epistemic Beliefs on Academic Achievement in an Online Collaborative Learning Context for College Students," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(11), pages 1-22, June.

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