Dataset 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
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.
Dataset 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
Keyword(s)
explanation knowledge judgments epistemic dependencePersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2020-08-19
Publisher
PsychArchives
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Citation
Vaupotič, N., Kienhues, D., & Jucks, R. (2020). Dataset for: The effect of explaining on people’s perception of their own knowledge and of experts’ knowledge [Data set]. PsychArchives. https://doi.org/10.23668/PSYCHARCHIVES.3162
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ExplainingScienceCleanData.csvCSV - 26.07KBMD5: 01975589e9b206613ae16474212eb14bDescription: Explaining Science Study: data used for analyses
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ExplainingScienceRawData.csvCSV - 184.04KBMD5: 6fd68d44d403c6b1d976007b65256e33Description: Explaining Science Study: raw data
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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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PsychArchives acquisition timestamp2020-08-19T08:26:01Z
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Made available on2020-08-19T08:26:01Z
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Date of first publication2020-08-19
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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.
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Abstract / DescriptionDataset 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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Review statusunknown
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CitationVaupotič, N., Kienhues, D., & Jucks, R. (2020). Dataset for: The effect of explaining on people’s perception of their own knowledge and of experts’ knowledge [Data set]. PsychArchives. https://doi.org/10.23668/PSYCHARCHIVES.3162en
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/2778
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.3162
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Language of contentdeu
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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/10.1080/21548455.2021.2018627
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Is related tohttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.8259
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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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TitleDataset for: The effect of explaining on people’s perception of their own knowledge and of experts’ knowledge
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DRO typeresearchData