Science educators increasingly seek to support students' participation in scientific practices,
particularly epistemic practices, that is, those that ground authority for knowing in the …

Despite the importance of scientific inquiry in science education, researchers and educators
disagree considerably regarding what features define this instructional approach. While a …

Abstract The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)[Achieve, Inc.[]] represent a broad
consensus that teaching and learning expectations must change. Rather than memorizing …

This article presents a framework and methodology for designing learning goals targeted at
what students need to know and be able to do in order to attain high levels of literacy and …

The purpose of this article is to delineate the role of epistemic emotions in personal
epistemology and self-regulated learning (SRL). We first review important tenets of personal …

Design research is strongly associated with the learning sciences community, and in the 2
decades since its conception it has become broadly accepted. Yet within and without the …

Recent years have seen a surge in educational efforts to foster the development of learners'
epistemologies. Our 1st aim is to problematize some current assumptions about the goals of …

The Handbook of Epistemic Cognition brings together leading work from across disciplines
to provide a comprehensive overview of an increasingly important topic: how people …

In recent years, research on students' scientific argumentation has progressed to a
recognition of nascent resources: Students can and do argue when they experience the …

There is now a significant research literature devoted to reconceptualizing scientific
activities, such as modeling, explanation, and argumentation, to realize a vision of science …