Epistemological Predictors of “Self Efficacy on Learning Biology” and “Test Anxiety Related to Evaluation of Learning on Biology” for Pre-service Elementary Teachers

High school students’ scientific epistemological beliefs, motivation in learning science, and their relationships: A comparative study within the Chinese culture

“…Individuals' self-efficacy beliefs may be one of the most prominent constructs raised in the literature (e.g., Kö ksal, 2011;Pintrich and De Groot, 1990;Seiferd, 2004). According to Bandura (1977Bandura ( , 1997, how individuals perceive their own capabilities to organize and execute certain tasks or actions required to achieve designated types of performance is characterized as the notion of self-efficacy.…”

Epistemological Predictors of Prospective Biology Teachers’ Nature of Science Understandings

“…Unal Coban, Ates and Kaya Sengoren (2011), in studying 147 prospective science teachers, also found that beliefs of prospective science teachers were neutral regarding the beliefs in inborn learning ability aspect. Koksal (2011) also studied 411 prospective teachers and reached the same conclusions that prospective teachers' beliefs are neutral with regard to accepting effect of inborn ability on learning. For the other three factors, the participants agreed that learning with time, it does not occur immediately and also that learning ability can be developed by opportunity and support, since the resource of knowledge is the individual's self.…”

Exploring the Relationship Between High School Students’ Physics-Related Personal Epistemologies and Self-regulated Learning in Turkey

“…Some researchers have suggested that personal epistemology directly and indirectly predicts students' achievement in science (Koksal, 2011;Taasoobshirazi & Sinatra, 2011). Stathopoulou and Vosniadou (2007) studied the influence of personal epistemology on achievement in classical dynamics and found that grade 10 students in Greece with low-and high-epistemological sophistication had significant (p < .001) differences in physics achievement; the sophisticated group achieved higher scores than the low (naïve) group.…”

“…intrinsic goal orientation) of SRL are essential to lead the students to use learning strategies effectively (Koksal, 2011). Intrinsically goal-oriented students, for example, are more highly motivated to learn and use deeper cognition strategies (Taasoobshirazi & Sinatra, 2011).…”