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Participants
The participants are the students who will attend the eight seminars taking the Psyc 2019 course. The number of participants during each seminar are about thirty. The participants were selected are random. Information about race, gender, or academic performance was not collected. The participants used the time they attended the seminar to answer the questionnaires.
Materials
Two types of surveys will be using survey questionnaires. The study questions will be developed from the two survey requirements, will ensure that objectivity is maintained in the questions and the entire study. The epistemological survey had a set of 38 questions where the participants can respond by choosing one of the five options from strongly disagree, disagree, unsure, agree, and strongly agree with the corresponding scores of 1 to 5. The participants respond by cycling the number corresponding to the level of their agreement. The results from the epistemological survey are measured using the Kardash Epistemological Belief scale. The ATTLS survey had a set of twenty questions with the response being the same as that of the epistemological survey where the respondents rate their degree to which they agree or disagree with the questions. The ATTLS survey has two sections, one for the connected knowing items with ten questions and the second part for separate knowing items with ten questions. They are measured on a Likert scale.
Procedures
Data were collected through a seminar. There was eight seminar group in this class. Each seminar group has equal or less than 30 participants. There were two surveys used for this study which students access from Blackboard system under the course Psyc 2019 Lab report folder. There were thirty-eight questions in Epistemological beliefs survey. The second survey was designed by Galotti, Clinchy, Ainsworth, Lavin and Mansfield (1999) to investigate whether there was a relationship between connected knowing and separate knowing through students’ learning and thinking attitudes scale. Epistemological studies, according to CarolAnne & Gale (2003), aim at establishing epistemic beliefs used majorly in mathematical performances to reveal the drive between results obtained and the individuals.
References:
CarolAnne, M. K. & Gale, S. M. (2003). Epistemological Beliefs and Dispositions: Are We Measuring the Same Construct? ERIC. Retrieved on February 19, 2016 from http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED479164
Galotti, K. M., Clinchy, B. M., Ainsworth, K. H., Lavin, B., & Mansfield, A. F. (1999). A new Way of Assessing Ways of Knowing: The Attitudes Toward Thinking and Learning Survey (ATTLS). Sex Roles, 40, 745-766.
