Three of the following are accurate statements about epistemic beliefs. Which statement is not accurate?
A) Students who view learning as an active, constructive process are more likely to undergo conceptual change when it's warranted.
B) Students who believe that learning is a slow, gradual process are more likely to persist in their efforts to understand classroom material.
C) Young children are apt to believe that conflicting points of view on a topic may be equally valid; as they get older, they become increasingly convinced that one perspective is almost invariably more valid than others.
D) As students move through the high school years, some of them increasingly begin to realize that mastering academic subject matter involves understanding concepts and their interrelationships rather than memorizing discrete facts.
Question 2
Three of the following strategies should help students acquire effective study strategies. Which one is least likely to do so?
A) Have students work in pairs to ask one another thought-provoking questions about a topic.
B) Express confidence that with time and effective strategies, students can learn everything there is to know about a topic.
C) Have students experiment with different methods of trying to remember information and then reflect on each method's effectiveness.
D) Give students a general structure to guide their early note-taking efforts.
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