Cognitive and Metacognitive Facets of Epistemic Thinking in the Domain of Genetics

• In Event: 63.085 - Poster Session 13
  In Poster Session: 63.085-1 - Fostering, Assessing, Mapping, and Enhancing Scientific Reasoning

Abstract

The application of a frame (Colleague & Author 1, 2014), characterizing epistemic thinking as a multifaceted construct with cognitive and metacognitive aspects, to the specific domain of epistemic practices in genetics, (Author 2, 2014) is examined. The questions are: 1) Whether and how these facets of epistemic thinking can be mapped in the domain of genetics? 2) Which cognitive and metacognitive aspects of epistemic thinking in genetics can be identified as being specific and which aspects as being general? 3) What degree of explicitness about the metacognitive aspects would be useful for instruction? Our argument is that distinguishing among the various facets of epistemological practices in genetics may help towards sharpening theoretical claims as well as towards improving instructional efforts.

Authors

• Maria Pilar Jimenez-Aleixandre, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

• Anat Zohar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Mount Scopus