Epistemic Beliefs about Knowledge-to-Use and Satisfaction toward Classes

摘要

Introduction: It has been pointed out that the personal epistemology of students affects how they view their classes (Hofer & Pintirich, 1997). Especially, absolutism view of knowlcdge relate to the negative influence derive from knowledgetransmission views of classes on satisfaction toward knowledge-construction in classroom. This study aims to explore epistemic beliefs that can absorb the negative effect. Nomura & Maruno (under review b) suggested that beliefs about knowledge-to use would be the nominees. If students who hold sophisticated beliefs about knowledge-to-use would learn contents of classes in useful way, satisfaction in gaining knowledge based knowledge transmission views of classes would not always lead aversive effect on satisfaction to taking perspective. The current study aims to examine whether or not beliefs about knowledge-to-use absorb the negative effect.