Teachers who want to help students develop epistemic beliefs that will positively affect their study strategies can do so most effectively by:
a. communicating to the students that learning is active because knowledge is dynamic and always changing.
b. teaching the students how and when to use particular study strategies.
c. reducing the cognitive load involved in classroom tasks so that students can complete them within the allotted time.
d. helping students to identify important information and take clear, meaningful notes.
Question 2
Which one of the following pairs of students best illustrates a difference in epistemic beliefs?
a. Irene likes going to school because that's where she sees her friends every day, but Isabelle likes going to school because of all the new things she learns there.
b. Julie thinks that doing well in high school is important for getting into a good college, but Janette thinks that she can get into college with mediocre grades as long as she has high SAT scores.
c. Loren is well aware of the criteria that his teacher is using to evaluate his classroom performance, but Luke is clueless about why he is doing poorly in the same teacher's class.
d. Keith thinks that learning geography means memorizing place names, but Kareem thinks that learning geography means understanding migration and settlement patterns.
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