TY - JOUR
T1 - A pilot validation study of the Epistemological Beliefs Assessment for Engineering (EBAE)
T2 - First-year engineering student beliefs
AU - Carberry, Adam
AU - Ohland, Matthew
AU - Swan, Chris
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This paper presents a study assessing first-year students' engineering epistemological beliefs or beliefs about engineering knowledge and knowing. A small cohort of first-year engineering students pilot tested a new quantitative instrument called the Epistemological Beliefs Assessment for Engineering (EBAE). Student responses to the EBAE were used to validate the instrument and analyze the epistemological beliefs - certainty of knowledge, simplicity of knowledge, source of knowing, and justification for knowing - of first-year engineering students. Results of this study produced thirteen validated items, which gauged first-year engineering students' epistemological beliefs as slightly sophisticated - mean score of 63.8 ± 8.4 out of 100.
AB - This paper presents a study assessing first-year students' engineering epistemological beliefs or beliefs about engineering knowledge and knowing. A small cohort of first-year engineering students pilot tested a new quantitative instrument called the Epistemological Beliefs Assessment for Engineering (EBAE). Student responses to the EBAE were used to validate the instrument and analyze the epistemological beliefs - certainty of knowledge, simplicity of knowledge, source of knowing, and justification for knowing - of first-year engineering students. Results of this study produced thirteen validated items, which gauged first-year engineering students' epistemological beliefs as slightly sophisticated - mean score of 63.8 ± 8.4 out of 100.
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M3 - Article
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JO - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
SN - 2153-5965
ER -