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Absolute Perspective subscale
A good college instructor often brings up questions that have more than one correct answer.*	0.59	0.22
College instructors should present various ideas on an issue.*	0.53	0.08
It’s not necessary for the instructor to answer all of my questions I post in class; fellow students can often do it instead.*	0.52	0.04
I like it when an instructor brings up a question that he or she doesn’t know the answer to.*	0.50	0.06
In a good online course I would learn as much from fellow students as I would from the instructor.*	0.49	0.14
I usually like it when my instructor answers a question with “it depends” and follows this by a discussion of the topic.*	0.43	0.11
In an online course, I would want the instructor to answer the questions I post instead of other students.	0.40	0.26
Reading messages posted by other students should be an important part of a good online class.*	0.38	0.18
Absolute Knowledge subscale
If I heard an instructor say “we don’t know the answer to that” I would worry about taking a class from him/her.	0.24	0.71
An instructor who says “nobody really knows the answer to that” is probably a bad instructor.	0.02	0.69
There is one right answer for most questions and a good instructor knows it.	0.15	0.49
A good instructor gives facts and leaves theories out of the discussion.	0.14	0.48

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Absolute Perspective subscale
A good college instructor often brings up questions that have more than one correct answer.*	0.59	0.22
College instructors should present various ideas on an issue.*	0.53	0.08
It’s not necessary for the instructor to answer all of my questions I post in class; fellow students can often do it instead.*	0.52	0.04
I like it when an instructor brings up a question that he or she doesn’t know the answer to.*	0.50	0.06
In a good online course I would learn as much from fellow students as I would from the instructor.*	0.49	0.14
I usually like it when my instructor answers a question with “it depends” and follows this by a discussion of the topic.*	0.43	0.11
In an online course, I would want the instructor to answer the questions I post instead of other students.	0.40	0.26
Reading messages posted by other students should be an important part of a good online class.*	0.38	0.18
Absolute Knowledge subscale
If I heard an instructor say “we don’t know the answer to that” I would worry about taking a class from him/her.	0.24	0.71
An instructor who says “nobody really knows the answer to that” is probably a bad instructor.	0.02	0.69
There is one right answer for most questions and a good instructor knows it.	0.15	0.49
A good instructor gives facts and leaves theories out of the discussion.	0.14	0.48

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