2. If I can't understand something right away, I keep on trying.
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3. The best thing about a science class is that most problems have only one right answer.
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4. You will get mixed up if you try to combine new ideas in a textbook with what you already know.
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5. I like it when experts disagree.
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6. Some people are just born smart; others are born dumb.
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7. Being a good student generally involves memorizing facts.
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8. What students learn from textbooks depends on how they study it.
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9. Thinking about what a textbook says is more important than what a textbook says.
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10. Working hard on a difficult problem only pays off for the really smart students.
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11. An expert is someone who is really born smart at something.
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12. Successful students understand things quickly.
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13. In order to understand what a sentence really means, you have to know the whole story behind it.
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14. I really do not like listening to teachers who cannot seem to make up their minds about what they really believe.
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15. If I cannot understand something quickly, it usually means I will never understand it.
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16. Scientists can get to the truth if they just keep searching for it.
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17. Most words have one clear meaning.
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18. If I am ever going to be able to understand something, it will make sense to me the first time I hear it.
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19. Today's facts may be tomorrow's fiction.
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20. To me, studying means getting the big ideas from the text book rather than the details.
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21. The really smart students don't have to work hard to do well in school.
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22. There is only one thing you can be sure of; that nothing is sure.
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23. If I find the time to re-read a textbook chapter, I get a lot more out of it the second time.
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24. Students who are "average" in school will remain "average" for the rest of their lives.
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25. If scientists try hard enough, they can find the truth to almost anything.
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26. Getting ahead takes a lot of work.
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27. The knowledge of "how to study" is usually learned as we grow older.
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28. You cannot learn anything more from a textbook by reading it twice.
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29. Truth never changes.
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30. A class in study skills would probably help slow learners.
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Schommer, M. (1993). Comparisons of beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning among postsecondary students., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, IL.