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Area of Science:

  • Educational Psychology
  • Psychometrics

Background:

  • Research on epistemic beliefs is limited by a lack of validated measurement tools.
  • The Epistemological Questionnaire, widely used, faces validity criticisms.
  • The Epistemic Belief Inventory (EBI) was developed as an alternative.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To validate the Spanish-language version of the Epistemic Belief Inventory (EBI) among Chilean high school students.
  • To examine the psychometric properties and factor structure of the EBI in a new cultural context.

Main Methods:

  • A Spanish-language version of the EBI was administered to 1,785 Chilean high school students.
  • Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted on independent subsamples.
  • Reliability and factorial invariance were assessed.

Main Results:

  • A three-factor structure emerged from the analyses and was confirmed.
  • The reliability of the EBI was found to be comparable to previous studies.
  • The factor structure demonstrated invariance across randomized subsamples.

Conclusions:

  • The validated Spanish EBI provides a reliable instrument for measuring epistemic beliefs in Chilean adolescents.
  • The identified three-factor structure differs from the original proposal but aligns with embedded systemic models.
  • This research contributes to the development of robust tools for understanding students' epistemological perspectives.