Code for: The effect of explaining on people’s perception of their own knowledge and of experts’ knowledge
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Vaupotič, Nina
Kienhues, Dorothe
Jucks, Regina
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University of Münster
Abstract / Description
When individuals read science news articles, they usually gain new yet shallow knowledge. Previous scientific work points to feelings of overconfidence, which may be moderated by a failure to provide a detailed explanation of a phenomenon. We investigated how participants (N = 155) perceived their own and scientists’ knowledge about a scientific topic before and after they either read or read and explained an online science article. Regardless the kind of engagement, ratings of participants’ own knowledge before and after engagement were significantly lower than the ratings of scientists’ knowledge, meanwhile ratings of own and scientists’ knowledge significantly increased in both groups. The group which provided (simplified) explanations reported a significantly higher reliance on themselves in comparison to the group only reading. Even though additional communicative act of explaining may not contribute to more productive strategies for dealing with science, the distinction between individuals and experts’ knowledge seem to prevail.
Code for: Nina Vaupotič, Dorothe Kienhues & Regina Jucks (2022) Gaining insight through explaining? How generating explanations affects individuals’ perceptions of their own and of experts’ knowledge, International Journal of Science Education, Part B, 12:1, 42-59, DOI: 10.1080/21548455.2021.2018627
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explanation knowledge judgments epistemic dependencePersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2022-10-18
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PsychArchives
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ExplainingScience_CodeR.RR script - 10.91KBMD5: fcd7ffd81c581c03eebeceb6b18ffa55Description: R code
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Vaupotič, Nina
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Kienhues, Dorothe
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Jucks, Regina
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Other kind(s) of contributorUniversity of Münster
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PsychArchives acquisition timestamp2022-10-18T06:49:28Z
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Date of first publication2022-10-18
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Abstract / DescriptionWhen individuals read science news articles, they usually gain new yet shallow knowledge. Previous scientific work points to feelings of overconfidence, which may be moderated by a failure to provide a detailed explanation of a phenomenon. We investigated how participants (N = 155) perceived their own and scientists’ knowledge about a scientific topic before and after they either read or read and explained an online science article. Regardless the kind of engagement, ratings of participants’ own knowledge before and after engagement were significantly lower than the ratings of scientists’ knowledge, meanwhile ratings of own and scientists’ knowledge significantly increased in both groups. The group which provided (simplified) explanations reported a significantly higher reliance on themselves in comparison to the group only reading. Even though additional communicative act of explaining may not contribute to more productive strategies for dealing with science, the distinction between individuals and experts’ knowledge seem to prevail.en
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Abstract / DescriptionCode for: Nina Vaupotič, Dorothe Kienhues & Regina Jucks (2022) Gaining insight through explaining? How generating explanations affects individuals’ perceptions of their own and of experts’ knowledge, International Journal of Science Education, Part B, 12:1, 42-59, DOI: 10.1080/21548455.2021.2018627en
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/7545
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.8259
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychArchives
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Is referenced byhttps://doi.org/10.1080/21548455.2021.2018627
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Is related tohttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.3162
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Keyword(s)explanationen
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Keyword(s)knowledge judgmentsen
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Keyword(s)epistemic dependenceen
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleCode for: The effect of explaining on people’s perception of their own knowledge and of experts’ knowledgeen
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