Three-factor structure for Epistemic Belief Inventory: A cross-validation study. Leal-Soto, F. & Ferrer-Urbina, R. PLOS ONE, 12(3):e0173295, March, 2017.
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Research on epistemic beliefs has been hampered by lack of validated models and measurement instruments. The most widely used instrument is the Epistemological Questionnaire, which has been criticized for validity, and it has been proposed a new instrument based in the Epistemological Questionnaire: the Epistemic Belief Inventory. The Spanishlanguage version of Epistemic Belief Inventory was applied to 1,785 Chilean high school students. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses in independent subsamples were performed. A three factor structure emerged and was confirmed. Reliability was comparable to other studies, and the factor structure was invariant among randomized subsamples. The structure that was found does not replicate the one proposed originally, but results are interpreted in light of embedded systemic model of epistemological beliefs.
@article{leal-soto_three-factor_2017,
	title = {Three-factor structure for {Epistemic} {Belief} {Inventory}: {A} cross-validation study},
	volume = {12},
	issn = {1932-6203},
	shorttitle = {Three-factor structure for {Epistemic} {Belief} {Inventory}},
	url = {https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173295},
	doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0173295},
	abstract = {Research on epistemic beliefs has been hampered by lack of validated models and measurement instruments. The most widely used instrument is the Epistemological Questionnaire, which has been criticized for validity, and it has been proposed a new instrument based in the Epistemological Questionnaire: the Epistemic Belief Inventory. The Spanishlanguage version of Epistemic Belief Inventory was applied to 1,785 Chilean high school students. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses in independent subsamples were performed. A three factor structure emerged and was confirmed. Reliability was comparable to other studies, and the factor structure was invariant among randomized subsamples. The structure that was found does not replicate the one proposed originally, but results are interpreted in light of embedded systemic model of epistemological beliefs.},
	language = {en},
	number = {3},
	urldate = {2020-03-12},
	journal = {PLOS ONE},
	author = {Leal-Soto, Francisco and Ferrer-Urbina, Rodrigo},
	editor = {Lozano, Sergi},
	month = mar,
	year = {2017},
	pages = {e0173295},
}

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