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Physical Review Physics Education Research
written by Keith Johnson and Shannon D. Willoughby
The reliability and validity of inventories should be verified in multiple ways. Although the epistemological beliefs about the physical science survey (EBAPS) has been deemed to be reliable and valid by the authors, the axes or factor structure proposed by the authors has not been independently checked. Using data from a study sample we discussed in previous publications, we performed exploratory factor analysis on 1,258 post-test EBAPS surveys. The students in the sample were from an introductory Astronomy course at a mid-sized western university. Inspection suggested the use of either a three-factor model or a five-factor model. Each of the factors is interpreted and discussed, and the factors are compared to the axes proposed by the authors of the EBAPS. We find that the five-factor model extrapolated from our data partially overlaps with the model put forth by the authors of the EBAPS, and that many of the questions did not load onto any factors.
Physical Review Physics Education Research: Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 010135
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EBAPS validation, Epistemological Beliefs Assessment for Physical Sciences, epistemology, metacognition, nature of science
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Johnson, Keith, and Shannon Willoughby. "Epistemic belief structures within introductory astronomy." Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 14, no. 1, (June 7, 2018): 010135, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.14.010135 (accessed 7 February 2025).
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Johnson, Keith, and Shannon Willoughby. "Epistemic belief structures within introductory astronomy." Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 14.1 (2018): 010135. 7 Feb. 2025 <https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.14.010135>.
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A link to a research study by Aaron Warren, published two years later, which introduced Bayesian updating (dynamic data analysis) as a tool to promote students' adoption of scientific reasoning in building and defending hypotheses. Results were also measured using the EBAPS survey.

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