Scientific reasoning levels are linked directly to sophistication of epistemological beliefs among Malaysian Muslim students¶
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q2 i? Students operating at higher levels of scientific reasoning exhibited more sophisticated epistemological belief systems, and lower reasoning accompanied naïve belief scores. → Ian Robottom and Sharifah Norhaidah 2008
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Ian Robottom and Sharifah Norhaidah 2008¶
Ian Robottom and Sharifah Norhaidah. (2008). Western science and Islamic learners: When disciplines and culture intersect. Journal of Research in International Education 7(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/1475240908091302
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From the same Malaysian survey, which administered Lawson's Classroom Test of Scientific Reasoning alongside the epistemological beliefs questionnaire. The article reports that "scientific reasoning levels are linked directly to levels of sophistication of epistemological belief scores."
"A valuable finding in this study is that scientific reasoning levels are linked directly to levels of sophistication of epistemological belief scores; that is, students able to operate at a higher level of scientific reasoning exhibited a more sophisticated epistemological belief system while students who displayed lower levels of reasoning exhibited naïve epistemological belief scores."
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Related Claims¶
- Among Malaysian Muslim science students, intensity of discord over scientific claims shows no direct link to scientific reasoning ability — related
- Australian and Malaysian Muslim learners ranked discord items differently, with Australian students most resistant to anti-science statements and most accepting of divine-cause statements — related
- Malaysian Muslim students' discord scores are inversely related to sophistication of epistemological beliefs — related
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Scientific reasoning levels are linked directly to sophistication of epistemological beliefs among Malaysian Muslim students |
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Scientific reasoning levels are linked directly to sophistication of epistemological beliefs among Malaysian Muslim students |
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