Barbara K Hofer

Biographic Data

ID3480864
NAMEBarbara K Hofer
GIVEN NAMESBarbara K
FAMILY NAMEHofer
SIGNATUREHOFER B K
AFFILIATIONSMiddlebury College
ORCID0000-0001-6361-7831
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS47
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • The multicompetent mind – how does early multilingualism affect children’s language development and cognition

    Open AccessBarbara K Hofer, Barbara HoferARTICLEEuropean Journal of Intercultural…2025References: 3

  • Assessing components of multi-(lingual) competence in young learners

    Open AccessBarbara K Hofer, Barbara Hofer et al.ARTICLELingua2019Cited by: 1References: 5

  • Emergent multicompetence at the primary level

    Barbara K Hofer, Barbara HoferARTICLELanguage Awareness2017

    This paper looks at multicompetence aspects of multilingual learning and offers a new conceptual framework for the discussion of multicompetence. The paper takes Cook's multicompetence theory as the point of departure and proposes a reconceptualisation thereof which is broader in scope and keyed to a dynamic systems and complexity theory perspective. The new concept construes multicompetence as a dynamic and multicomponential phenomenon resulting…

  • Addressing Challenges to Public Understanding of Science

    Gale M Sinatra, Dorothe Kienhues et al.ARTICLEEducational Psychologist2014

    Science is of critical importance to daily life in a knowledge society and has a significant influence on many everyday decisions. As scientific problems increase in their number and complexity, so do the challenges facing the public in understanding these issues. Our objective is to focus on 3 of those challenges: the challenge of reasoning about knowledge and the processes of knowing, the challenge of overcoming biases in that reasoning, and th…

  • What Is Tracking? Cultural Expectations in the United States, Germany, and Japan

    Open AccessGerald K Letendre, Barbara K Hofer et al.ARTICLEAmerican Educational Research…2003Cited by: 46References: 60

    On the basis of the TIMSS Case Study Project data collected in the United States, Japan, and Germany in 1994–1995, this article examines the phenomenon of tracking as part of curricular differentiation and student placement practices in public K–12 school systems. The authors document clear national differences in differentiation and placement measures and summarize the history of conflict over those measures. Analysis of respondent perceptions a…

  • Personal Epistemology Research

    Open AccessBarbara K HoferARTICLEEducational Psychology Review2001

  • Personal Epistemology

    Barbara K Hofer, Paul R PintrichBOOKPersonal Epistemology2001

    Contents: Preface. Introduction. B.K. Hofer, Personal Epistemology as a Psychological and Educational Construct: An Introduction. Part I: Conceptual Models of Personal Epistemology. W.S. Moore, Understanding Learning in a Postmodern World: Reconsidering the Perry Scheme of Ethical and Intellectual Development. P.M. King, K.S. Kitchener, The Reflective Judgment Model: Twenty Years of Research on Epistemic Cognition. B.M. Clinchy, Revisiting Women'…

  • Dimensionality and Disciplinary Differences in Personal Epistemology

    Open AccessBarbara K HoferARTICLEContemporary Educational Psychology2000

  • The Development of Epistemological Theories

    Open AccessBarbara K Hofer, Paul R PintrichARTICLEReview of Educational Research1997

    There have been a number of research programs that have investigated students’ thinking and beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing, including definitions of knowledge, how knowledge is constructed, and how knowledge is evaluated. However, these different research programs have pursued varying definitions and conceptual frameworks and used quite different methodologies to examine students’ epistemological beliefs and thinking. In the fi…