His mission was, in a sense, twofold: to take on people's initial misconceptions about what video games actually were; and to change their perception of how games might be used within schools.
In December of 2010, decades after many initial misconceptions about the transmission and spread of H.I.V. and AIDS had been debunked, a popular New York radio d.j. declared on air that the reason he was H.I.V.-negative was that he refrained from having sex with Haitian women.
Analysis of pretest responses to the UET assessment administered in F09 and S10 identified similar initial misconceptions (Table 2).
Although there had been some initial misconceptions and fear of side effects of conventional therapies, the majority of the cancer survivors showed a positive attitude in coping with the general side effects after chemo or radiotherapies.
Both studies had a pretest, immediate post-test, and delayed post-test design and involved students with an initial common misconception about the causes of season change.
We agreed on an initial list of misconceptions about genetic drift.
Using the initial list of misconceptions produced in step 3, we began coding the full data set.
"Since overcoming their initial fears and misconceptions about Ebola, families have been showing incredible support, providing care and protection for children whose parents have died," said Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF's Regional Director for West and Central Africa.
In all cases, new misconceptions were closely related to misconceptions from our initial list, so it was only necessary to reanalyze responses previously coded as containing a misconception closely related to the newly emerged misconception and responses previously coded as undetermined.
First, we compared the misconceptions displayed in the initial Human Evolution Question (categorized as stated above) to misconceptions displayed on the Revision Question.
