Majid Mohammadi, Ezatollah Naderi, Ali Shariyatmadari and Maryam Seif Naraghi
The present survey was done to investigation to the relationship between epistemological beliefs dimensions and teaching approaches. For the reason, 205 guidance school teachers of Sananadaj city using multi step clustering sampling method were taken up in the study. Schommer's Epistemological Beliefs Questionnaire and Teaching Approach Questionnaire were utilized in order to collect data. The regression analysis was applied to analyze the data. The results from regression analysis showed that the dimensions of knowledge simplicity, ability fixedness and learning quickness positively predict the executive approach. Also, knowledge simplicity positively and fixed ability dimensions and learning quickness negatively predict the facilitative approach. The knowledge simplicity and ability fixedness also anticipates negatively the liberationist approach.
