TY - T1 - University students' epistemic profiles, conceptions of learning, and academic performance SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/329614 T3 - A1 - Lonka, Kirsti; Ketonen, Elina; Vermunt, Jan D. A2 - PB - Y1 - 2021 LA - eng AB - University students' epistemic beliefs may have practical consequences for studying and success in higher education. Such beliefs constitute epistemic theories that may empirically manifest themselves as epistemic profiles. This study examined university students' epistemic profiles and their relations to conceptions of learning, age, gender, discipline, and academic achievement. The participants were 1515 students from five faculties who completed questionnaires about epistemic beliefs, includi... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - Epistemic beliefs; Epistemic profiles; Epistemic cognition; Approaches to learning; Conceptions of learning; Academic performance; Academic achievement; Cluster analysis; Latent profile analysis; Confirmatory factor analysis; University students; Teacher education; Engineering education; Higher education; EPISTEMOLOGICAL BELIEFS; PERSONAL EPISTEMOLOGY; HIGHER-EDUCATION; SELF-REGULATION; KNOWLEDGE; STRATEGIES; COGNITION; METACOGNITION; PATTERNS; MODEL; 516 Educational sciences N1 - PP - ER -