Several of our statements were either inspired by or modified from those of Bishop and Anderson (1990 , 1986 Table 2) who examined misconceptions in college students from Michigan.
We also examined misconception uses in their answer selections.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip to Mexico this week is a good time to examine the misconception that Mexico is, or is on the point of becoming, a "failed state".
In a forced-choice instrument like this one, an increase in key concepts necessarily means a decrease in misconceptions; however, because each item on the assessment may have incorrect responses that represent different misconceptions, this analysis complements the key concept analysis by examining which misconceptions changed.
In "A Call To Leadership for Women in STEM," Dr. Pamela McCauley examines common misconceptions, theories, and characteristics of leadership.
In this study we examined four misconceptions: recency effects, the distinction between compound and simple events, the effect of sample size, and representativeness.
Brumby's (1984) study, which examined the misconceptions surrounding natural selection among Australian medical biology students, revealed that questions about natural selection were answered correctly more often by students with a high school biology education.
During this activity and its follow-up homework assignment, students will have several opportunities to directly examine any prior misconceptions about how evolution occurs.
In examining the misconception among rural residents with diabetes, Huang et al. [ 30] showed that the phenomenon of "I feel good, but the data says no" could be found in many residents with diabetes living in disadvantaged areas.
We use qualitative and quantitative methods to describe students' definitions, identify common misconceptions, and examine differences before and after instruction on genetic drift.
