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Article: Assessing beliefs: the epistemological scenario.
- Article from:
- Academic Exchange Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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Abstract
Epistemological beliefs are difficult to measure because they are covert, unconscious, and because effect of context or domain on beliefs is unclear. Current research on epistemological beliefs has primarily used three methods of data collection: Interviews, open-ended questionnaires, and Likert-scale questionnaires. This study investigated the use of scenarios as an assessment of epistemological beliefs. Results indicate that epistemological scenarios are a viable measure for assessing beliefs within a domain.
Introduction
Epistemological beliefs are an individual's conception about knowledge and the conditions for acquiring knowledge ...