TY - T1 - Epistemological Beliefs and Scientific Reasoning in Finnish Academic Upper Secondary Education SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/162963 T3 - A1 - Hotulainen, Risto; Telivuo, Julius A2 - PB - Y1 - 2015 LA - eng AB - The guiding idea in this paper was to study how scientific reasoning correlates with epistemological beliefs and academic achievement. Based on the study at hand, we argue that the nature of epistemological beliefs is still more the product of the level of scientific reasoning than the other way round. As a practical implication we propose that teacher training programmes should consider epistemological beliefs not only as an important aspect that all learners and teachers should be aware of, bu... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 515 Psychology; scientific reasoning; epistemological beliefs N1 - PP - ER -