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A recent analysis of some popular questions that are used to measure misconceptions about HIV, which have been adopted for TB, also found positive indications about validity [ 36].
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The extreme parental response was to take children out of school, a measure that furthered misconceptions about what a curriculum supporting early sex education actually entails.
First, the questions used to measure myths and misconceptions as captured in the 2008 GDHS were adopted from questions that have been extensively used to measure myths and misconceptions about HIV and their validity are not in doubt [ 31].
The conceptual model used to guide instrument development was informed by a review of the literature on biospecimen donation and diagnostic misconception, prior qualitative research conducted by our group on the US-Mexico border, and a quantitative measure of therapeutic misconception developed by Appelbaum et al. [ 13].
This model is similar to the theoretical framework used by Appelbaum et al. to develop their measure of therapeutic misconception, but with unreasonable beliefs about the degree of individualization of the intervention replaced by understanding of the distinction between clinical and observational research [ 13].
Gaunt and colleagues find, for instance, that misconceptions over measure designs might significantly influence acceptability levels [24].
For our third measure of how students' misconceptions changed during this activity, students filled out an evaluation of the discussion described in this paper during the class period after this activity.
It should be noted that our study focuses on developing assessment instruments that can effectively measure the presence of misconceptions.
We measured student rejection of misconceptions using three different tools.
Scores for correct structural components of a phylogenetic tree and common classification misconceptions were measured on a present/absent scale.
For the Revision Question, we measured whether students rejected misconceptions by categorizing their answer as showing signs of "no improvement," "partial improvement," or "complete improvement".
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