Table 3 Average and standard deviations for novice and expert scores on the scientific epistemic beliefs survey
From: Assessing epistemological beliefs of experts and novices via practices in authentic science inquiry
Dimension | Novice | Expert | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
M | SD | M | SD | |
Source | 3.87 | 0.88 | 4.35 | 0.40 |
Justification | 4.31 | 0.39 | 4.33 | 0.37 |
Development | 4.38 | 0.46 | 4.38 | 0.43 |
Certainty | 4.06 | 0.69 | 4.46 | 0.33 |
Total | 4.18 | 0.37 | 4.38 | 0.28 |