Because common misconceptions are used as distracters in CINS-abbr questions, we would expect courses in which misconceptions were directly targeted to have higher learning gains on this instrument.
When used as a pretest at the start of a course before any instruction and as a posttest at the end of the course, the IMCA can measure overall student learning gains, performance in specific content areas by learning goal, and areas in which misconceptions are held.
The second exasperating misconception in the Guide, which is usually a syndrome of the citified fag, is that gay men and lesbians have nothing in common.
The GeDI does not test for the misconceptions associated with stage 3 because the ways in which student understanding grows to overcome these misconceptions are more nuanced than this instrument can effectively evaluate.
Re "The Road to Chapter 11 Is Littered With Misconceptions" (On the Contrary, Feb. 3), in which Daniel Akst, discussing Kmart's problems, said businesses should know their consumers' tastes: As a supplier to Kmart from the days of its first stores, I think the reason for its problems is much simpler: a lack of discipline.
The arrows between categories of misconceptions in our framework represent ways in which students' conceptions may be changing as they learn.
Researchers [ 17] have suggested one of the barriers to pandemic influenza vaccination in nurses was misconceptions about the purpose of vaccinations in which nurse might think that the aim of vaccination was for self protection rather than to protect at risk populations in contact with them [ 17, 23, 25].
He said there was a misconception that people could be helped by "debriefing," in which they are forced to talk about traumatic experiences.
The box contradicts our misconceptions about our neighbors in this small/enormous world in which we all seemingly have so little in common.
Analysis revealed there to be ten BEL Survey statements (2, 3, 5, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, and 23) in which the mean change in the number of misconceptions held by students whose teachers accepted the statement misconception was greater than that for students of teachers who rejected the statement misconception, producing a mean p =.36 (Table 9).
