Epistemological Beliefs Assessment for Physical Sciences (EBAPS)

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Description

EBAPS is a 30-item assessment instrument developed to measure physical-science students' epistemological beliefs across five non-orthogonal dimensions using prescribed weighted axis scores.

Components

• EBAPS five-dimension framework of epistemological beliefs in physical sciences: The Epistemological Beliefs Assessment for Physical Sciences is a 30-item questionnaire of Likert-style and multiple-choice items, each scored from 0 (least sophisticated) to 4 (most sophisticated). "The questionnaire probes students' beliefs across the following five non-orthogonal dimensions": structure of scientific knowledge (10 items), nature of knowing and learning (8), real-life applicability (4), evolving knowledge (3), and source of ability to learn (5). The study uses weighted percentage scores per axis to compare belief sophistication across chatbot preference groups. (Amogh Sirnoorkar et al. (2026))

Claims

• Chatbot preference groups differed in total EBAPS and Axis 4/5 scores at the nominal level, with small effect sizes, but not after Bonferroni adjustment [~W]
• No statistically significant EBAPS differences were observed for Axes 1–3 or between guided-inquiry and answer-oriented chatbot preferrers [~W]
• Combination-preferring students scored higher than answer-preferring students on evolving-knowledge (Axis 4) and source-of-ability (Axis 5) EBAPS dimensions [+W]

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Key Sources

• Amogh Sirnoorkar and Omkar Mamidpalliwar. (2026). Students' Epistemological Beliefs and their Chatbot Preferences in AI-mediated Physics Learning. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29385

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