Table 1 The texture subscale of the Connotative Aspects of Epistemological Beliefs (CAEB) scale
From: Development of domain-specific epistemological beliefs of physiotherapists: a longitudinal study
Knowledge in the domain of physiotherapy [or medicine respectively] is … | |||
|---|---|---|---|
1 | objective | □-□-□-□-□-□-□ | subjective |
2 | confirmable | □-□-□-□-□-□-□ | unconfirmable |
3 | superficial | □-□-□-□-□-□-□ | profound |
4 | exact | □-□-□-□-□-□-□ | vague |
5 | absolute | □-□-□-□-□-□-□ | relative |
6 | sorted | □-□-□-□-□-□-□ | unsorted |
7 | precise | □-□-□-□-□-□-□ | imprecise |
8 | definite | □-□-□-□-□-□-□ | ambiguous |
9r | negotiated | □-□-□-□-□-□-□ | discovered |
10 | structured | □-□-□-□-□-□-□ | unstructured |