The Belief Of Epistemology And It's Relationship With Self-regulated Learning Of College Students

The belief of epistemology is a new subject studied in the metacognitive field. It involves people's perception of the nature,form,process,condition of knowledge and its rationality, which is a peculiar individual philosophical thought. It is composed of a set of interdependent belief system, among which students'beliefs of knowledge is the core of the system. To explore the content,functioning system and influential factors of the belief of epistemology, is not only helpful to know of the individual internal perception characteristic, but also helpful to establish,improve,emend belief and predict individual behavior, and also helpful to provide basis for creating a desirable learning atmosphere.In recent period, autonomous learning gradually arouses the emphasis of the educational field. The researcher Pang Guowei proposes to define autonomous learning from the angle of landscape and lengthways. The angle of landscape refers to comprehensively define autonomous learning from all the aspects and dimensions. That is, if one student can consciously select and control all the aspects of his learning, we'll conclude the student is fully autonomous. The angle of lengthways is to illustrate the nature of autonomous learning from the whole learning process, i.e. a student can direct his own learning. The proposal of autonomous learning in our country reflects the new achievements of domestic educational field. Autonomous learning has been listed into the"95"project as an important research content, from which we can realize the importance and significance of deeply exploring the subject of autonomous learning.By reviewing the study of beliefs of epistemology, most researches are done by western scholars against their students and few experts at home get involved in it,while there are many studies of autonomy home and abroad. Concerning the study of the relationship between beliefs of epistemology and autonomous learning, only one dissertation done by Wang Tingting can be found out.The thesis introduces the definition,development and present situation of beliefs of epistemology and autonomous learning, based on which, it systematically studies the influential factors and relationships of them. First, we revised some words and expressions in both Wang Tingting's and Pang Guowei's test tables under the help of psychological experts. The revised questionnaire is finished by four university's sampled students. The investigation result shows as follows:1,Generally, the Chinese college students present obvious sexual differences in terms of beliefs of epistemology, that is, girls got higher marks than boys. However, there are not sexual differences on autonomy.2,As far as the students'major is concerned, arts students got higher marks than science ones on beliefs of epistemology, while on autonomy, there are also not major differences.3,From the angle of grades of the students, both of them present obvious differences. The order of the grades from the high to the low on the beliefs of epistemology is senior, sophomore, freshman and junior and the corresponding result of autonomy is senior, freshman, sophomore and junior.4,the relationship between beliefs of epistemology and autonomy is positive relevance, that is, the more positive the students'beliefs of epistemology is, the stronger of the students'autonomous learning ability. We may conclude that the students'beliefs of epistemology can properly predict their learning autonomy.The enlightenment that we can get from the thesis is as follows:1. College teachers should give more emphasis on knowing of the students'beliefs of epistemology.2. In the process of students'learning, college teachers should focus on fostering students'self-confidence and communicating with them immediately so as to improve students'self-efficacy and promote their autonomous learning.3. Teachers should try to improve the class teaching quality, change the teaching model and finally promote the students'autonomy.