@article{article_327723, title={Validity and Reliability Study of Turkish Form of Epistemological Beliefs Scale}, journal={Bartın University Journal of Faculty of Education}, volume={6}, pages={1166–1188}, year={2017}, DOI={10.14686/buefad.327723}, author={Aydın, Serhat and Selçuk, Gülenaz and Çakmak, Altan and İlğan, Abdurrahman}, keywords={epistemological beliefs scale,preservice teachers,validity,reliability,item response theory}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">In this study the
validity and reliability study of epistemological beliefs scale developed by
Schommer and adapted by  </span> <span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;"> <span>Deryakulu and Büyüköztürk on 1242 Class, Turkish, Science and Social
Sciences preservice teachers was explained. In exploratory faktor analysis it
was found that three factor structure explained 45 % of total variance and
Cartell, Velicer and Horn tests confirmed three factor structure. In
confirmatory factor analysis the goodness-of-fit statistics to three factor
structure were found good (RMSEA = 0.05, NFI = 0.95, NNFI = 0.96, GFI = 0.90,
AGFI = 0.88, CFI = 0.96). The alfa internal consistency coefficients were found
as 0.88 for effort, 0.88 for ability and 0.85 for single truth subdimensions.
As a result of all analyses, the scale was found valid and reliable with three
factor structure and some recommendations were made for weak items. </span> </span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"> <span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;"> </span> </p> <p> </p>}, number={3}, publisher={Bartin University}