Barbara K. Hofer - Personal Epistemology: The Psychology of Beliefs About Knowledge and Knowing

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Personal Epistemology:
The Psychology of Beliefs
About Knowledge and Knowing

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Edited by

Barbara K. Hofer

Middlebury College

and

Paul R. Pintrich

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Copyright 2002 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Personal epistemology: the psychology of beliefs about knowledge and knowing/ edited
by Barabara K. Hofer and Paul R. Pintrich.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8058-3518-0 (alk. paper)
1. Educational psychology. 2. Knowledge, Theory of. I. Hofer, Barbara K. II. Pintrich,
Paul R.

LB1051.P415 2001

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Barbara K. Hofer is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. She received an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Education and Psychology. She is the recipient of the American Psychological Association McKeachie Early Teaching Award and the American Educational Research Associotion Research Review Award (with co-editor, Paul Pintrich) for a review of the literature on epistemological thinking. She has published a dozen articles and book chapters on personal epistemology, self-regulated learning, and cross-cultural issues in education, and is a regular presenter at APA and AERA.

Paul R. Pintrich is Professor of Education and Psychology and Chair of the Combined Program in Education and Psychology at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also serves as the Associate Dean for Research for the School of Education at Michigan. His research focuses on the development of motivation, epistemological thinking, and self-regulated learning in adolescence. He has published over 100 articles, book chapters and books including co-authoring or co-editing 8 books. He is the past editor of the American Psychology Association journal for Division 15-Educational Psychology, Educational Psychologist

His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) in the Department of Education, the Spencer Foundation, and the Kellogg Foundation. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and has been a National Academy of Education Spencer Fellow. Along with his co-author Barbara Hofer, he won the 1999 Best Research Review Article Award from the American Educational Research Association for an article on epistemological thinking that appeared in Review of Educational Research . He is currently President-Elect of Division 5-Educational and Instructional Psychology for the International Association of Applied Psychology and President-Elect for Division 15-Educational Psychology for the American Psychological Association. He also has won the Class of 1923 Award from the College of Literature, Science, and Arts and the School of Education at The University of Michigan for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

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