Scales | Descriptions |
Source | Measures beliefs about knowledge residing in external authorities e.g. everybody has to believe what scientists say. |
Certainty | Refers to a belief in a right answer e.g. scientific knowledge is always true. |
Development | Concerns beliefs about science as an evolving and changing subject. e.g. the ideas in science sometimes change. |
Justification | Related to the role of experiments and how individuals justify knowledge e.g. ideas in science can come from your own questions and experiments. |