Three of the following are accurate statements about epistemic beliefs. Which statement is not accurate?
A) Students who view learning as an active, constructive process are more likely to undergo conceptual change when it's warranted.
B) Students who believe that learning is a slow, gradual process are more likely to persist in their efforts to understand classroom material.
C) Young children are apt to believe that conflicting points of view on a topic may be equally valid; as they get older, they become increasingly convinced that one perspective is almost invariably more valid than others.
D) As students move through the high school years, some of them increasingly begin to realize that mastering academic subject matter involves understanding concepts and their interrelationships rather than memorizing discrete facts.
C
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