65% of codable WoW forum posts display an evaluative epistemology, contrasting with Kuhn's finding that only 15% of interviewed Americans held one¶
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q2 i? Of codable posts, 65% displayed an evaluative epistemology, 30% an absolutist epistemology, and 5% a relativist epistemology; 27% of the corpus was too ambiguous to code. → Constance Steinkuehler 2008
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Constance Steinkuehler 2008¶
Constance Steinkuehler, Sean Duncan. (2008). Scientific Habits of Mind in Virtual Worlds. J Sci Educ Technol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-008-9120-8
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Epistemology coding of the forum corpus (Kuhn 1992 framework) found "65% of the forum posts displayed an evaluative epistemology", 30% absolutist, 5% relativist, with 27% of the corpus uncodable for epistemological disposition.
"we found that 65% of the forum posts displayed an evaluative epistemology through rhetorical moves that treat knowledge as an open-ended process of evaluation and argument"
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65% of codable WoW forum posts display an evaluative epistemology, contrasting with Kuhn's finding that only 15% of interviewed Americans held one |
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65% of codable WoW forum posts display an evaluative epistemology, contrasting with Kuhn's finding that only 15% of interviewed Americans held one |
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