A Preliminary Report of the Psychometric Properties of the Epistemic Beliefs Inventory

Table 3: Descriptive Statistics for Items in the EBI (N = 282)

Factor	M	SD	Skewness	Kurtosis
Q1SK	3.780	0.890	-0.440	-0.043
Q2CK	3.734	0.903	-1.027	1.290
Q3QL	2.830	0.928	0.291	-0.500
Q4OA	3.511	0.981	-0.235	-0.521
Q5IA	2.514	0.966	0.365	-0.581
Q6CK	2.574	0.910	0.148	-0.098
Q7OA	2.979	0.980	0.294	-0.479
Q8IA	2.965	1.033	0.071	-0.919
Q9QL	2.926	0.950	0.024	-1.011
Q10 SK	3.223	0.926	-0.161	-0.372
Q11 SK	3.603	0.781	-0.526	0.554
Q12 IA	2.628	0.885	0.462	-0.471
Q13 SK	3.067	0.864	0.170	-0.258
Q14 CK	3.367	0.876	-0.281	-0.177
Q15 IA	2.567	0.949	0.408	-0.505
Q16 QL	2.046	0.736	0.789	1.304
Q17 IA	3.507	0.853	-0.732	0.237
Q18 SK	3.082	0.748	0.175	0.061
Q19 CK	2.312	0.797	0.738	0.794
Q20 OA	2.957	0.961	0.013	-0.450
Q21 QL	2.106	0.761	1.038	2.086
Q22	SK	2.574	0.858	0.362
Q23	CK	2.539	0.897	0.687
Q24	SK	3.525	0.779	-0.265
Q25	CK	2.447	0.884	0.738
Q26	IA	2.606	0.875	0.248
Q27	OA	3.723	0.760	-0.516
Q28	OA	2.461	0.750	0.593
Q29	QL	2.213	0.678	0.676
Q30	SK	3.713	0.800	-0.655
Q31	CK	3.816	0.814	-0.764
Q32	IA	4.028	0.685	-0.907

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