Search for dissertations about: "epistemic goals"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words epistemic goals.
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1. Motivation, students, and the classroom environment : exploring the role of Swedish students’ achievement goals in chemistry
Abstract : The overarching aim of this thesis is to deepen the knowledge about students’ achievement goals in chemistry and how they relate to students’ epistemic beliefs (beliefs about knowledge) and to their perceptions of classroom goal structures (instructional practices that emphasize certain achievement goals). Achievement goals are defined as the purpose behind students’ engagement in achievement behavior. READ MORE
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2. (De)coding Modality : The Case of Must, May, Måste and Kan
Abstract : This study investigates the mechanisms of (de)coding modality, focusing on the interpretation of utterances containing the modals must, may, måste, and kan. The main research question posed in this study is what enables the interlocutors to interpret modal expressions so that communicative goals are achieved. READ MORE
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3. Criminal investigation: A case of Motivated cognition?
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4. Epistemic beliefs among upper-secondary students in education for sustainable development
Abstract : This research project explores an educational context through two approaches. The first analyses the interpretability and role of the concept of sustainable development according to the writings of four syllabuses in the curriculum for Swedish compulsory school. READ MORE
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5. Constructive Analysis : A Study in Epistemological Methodology
Abstract : In the present study, it is argued that much of contemporary epistemology has not been conducted in a way conducive to what should be one of its main goals, namely to guide epistemic inquiry in the attainment of our most central epistemic goals. Furthermore, it is claimed that the very reason that epistemology has failed to do so pertains to an entrenched?indeed, in a sense, a literally ancient?but implausible methodology, best understood as the pursuit of definitions by way of intuitions. READ MORE