Sentence examples for misconceptions and preconceptions from inspiring English sources

The Zimbabwe Sheers describes is the myth-and-dust-infused land of an innocent abroad whose baggage of misconceptions and preconceptions I wish had been lost at the airport.

Misconceptions and preconceptions, especially those concerning the compatibility or incompatibility of evolution with religion, are difficult to overcome, but teachers have devised many ingenious approaches to "defuse the religion issue".

The argument is made that this substrate comprises the particular set of lived experiences of each learner, and how – because these lived experiences are as tacit as they are diverse – designing curriculum around misconceptions and preconceptions alone would not lead to enduring understanding from first principles.

"It's a common thing," he said, which comes from misconceptions and preconceptions of meditation, many of which he says he used to have himself.

Through this type of assessment, students were evaluated on how thorough an understanding was evidenced by their ability to make connections among the concepts across the semester, whether they revisited reflections, and their ability to identify misconceptions and preconceptions that align with components of metacognitive skills.

Furthermore, Smith and colleagues (2008) recently designed a concept assessment tool to assess central concepts in genetics and diagnose misconceptions or preconceptions.

Knowledge of student misconceptions is included as a particular component of Shulman's (1986) construct of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) as "the conceptions and preconceptions that students of different ages and backgrounds bring with them to the learning of those most frequently taught topics and lessons.

Interviews conducted near the end of the summer research experience and responses to the follow-up questionnaire revealed that in many cases students considered their preconceptions to have been misconceptions and came to have what the authors considered to be slightly more mature understandings over the course of the 10-wk experience.

As for misconceptions or preconceptions … I guess it would be the friendliness.

This year's Age Boom challenged stereotypes and preconceptions.

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