EDHD703

Explores how students come to understand how evidence is acquired, produced, and used to make inferences and draw conclusions about the world. Topics will include selective trust, source selection, navigating multiple mediums and modalities, epistemic cognition, scientific reasoning, motivated cognition, and confirmation bias. We will explore both basic research on these topics as well as ways in which this research can be used to foster critical thinking and scientific literacy in childhood and beyond, in both formal and informal educational settings.