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GAETA GONZALEZ, Martha Leticia  y  ZANOTTO GONZALEZ, Mercedes. Personal Epistemology: On research in postgraduate students. Innov. educ. (Méx. DF) [online]. 2019, vol.19, n.81, pp.89-109.  Epub 21-Feb-2025. ISSN 1665-2673.

The objective of this study is to determine the epistemological beliefs or personal epistemology about research in Pedagogy in postgraduate students, as well as the existence of significant differences according to gender, age, and educational level. Participants were 394 researchers in training, in a graduate program in Pedagogy of a university in Mexico 374 are master’s degree students and 20 doctoral students, who responded to the Questionnaire of Epistemological Beliefs on Research in Pedagogy (CCEIP). This instrument takes as reference the Topic-Specific Epistemic Belief Questionnaire focused on the topic of climate change. Results show that students present an intermediate level of sophistication or complexity regarding the justification of knowledge, the source and certainty of knowledge, as well as a low or naive level corresponding to the structure of knowledge. In turn, no significant differences were observed, according to sex, age and educational level.

Palabras llave : Epistemology; scientific research; Pedagogy; postgraduate; training of researchers.

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