Abstract: Personal epistemologies are personal beliefs about knowledge and knowing. These beliefs affect or mediate knowledge-acquisition and knowledge-construction process. Student’s epistemic beliefs have become one of critical components of understanding student’s learning. This paper synthesized three research paradigms regards personal epistemology: epistemological development paradigm, epistemology as a system of independent beliefs paradigm, metacognitive process paradigm, and all of these paradigms are confronted with new problems and challenging prospect for future research

Key words: personal epistemology, beliefs, paradigm