Epistemic Perspective and Learning Strategies in History

What is it about?

The present study showed a relation between students’ epistemic perspective and learning strategies. Students who were profiled as Evaluativists showed greater self-efficacy, intrinsic value, use of cognitive strategies and self-regulation. Evaluativists also engaged in more effective learning strategies, such as summarising and underlying and exhibited better text comprehension compared to students who were profiled as Absolutists. Students who exhibited an Absolutist epistemic perspective engaged more in less effective learning strategies, such as repeating information and quick reading.

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Why is it important?

Our findings show that a mature epistemic perspective is associated with effective usage of learning strategies and text comprehension.