Previous research indicates that students’ adaptation to task complexity in the planning stages of self-regulated learning are related to their epistemological beliefs (Stahl, Pieschl, & Bromme, 2006), but it is an open issue if students enact similar strategies in subsequent stages. Based on the COPES-model (Winne & Hadwin, 1998) the impact of epistemological beliefs on learning is tested here...

Arguments between adherents of different therapeutic models are often based on the assumption that empirical evidence is ultimately the judge of the merits of the respective approaches. The gathering of empirical evidence, however, is programmed by epistemological premises that in turn are not tested by "objective" demonstration but rather by their congruence with prevailing sociocultural value...

This paper provides an overview of how empirical research can be a valid approach to improve epistemological foundations and ontological representations in Software Engineering (SE). Despite of all the research done in SE, most of the results have not been yet been stated as laws, theories, hypothesis or conjectures, i.e., from an epistemological point of view. This paper explores such facts an...

Currently, many specialties should be mastered to produce software, consequently they fall in different levels of knowledge: project, system, program, or routine. This consideration was obtained through an epistemological approach in software development. Therefore, this article develops this consideration for students learning software production. The epistemological approach compliments the m...

Background. Mastering the rhetorical art as a philological discipline must be based on scientific understanding of subject speech influence. The latter is only possible if one masters not knowledge current state discipline, but also ability to analyze theoretical achievements rhetoric in its formation and elaboration. That what enables scholar assess adequacy ratio learning goals objectives, we...