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Finally, the open responses of the students underline the potentialities and the points to be improved with regard to feedback.
These cover the media mode and language preferences, information importance over time, sources of information gathering difficulties, and open responses.
For these comparisons, we defined improvement as a misconception present in the pretest open responses that was absent in the post test.
Of the misconceptions we tested for, Directed Variation (MC2) was the only one that did not significantly decrease in the open responses after instructional intervention (Fig. 6).
However, evident in the post-survey open responses, a subset of learners did not understand how talking about math concepts would help them improve at math.
One author (Abraham, who did not participate in designing the lab or tests) then coded misconceptions in open responses based on the revised rubric (N = 338 students).
The open responses on the test were designed primarily to elicit these misconceptions: Willful Change (MC1), Directed Variation (MC2), Intra-Generational Change (MC3), and Population Change (MC4).
Of the 338 sets of student open responses on the pretests, slightly more than half exhibited at least one of the four most common misconceptions.
The open responses of these respondents were therefore analyzed to explore how foreigners skilled only in English tried to overcome the difficulties they encountered.
Further, themes derived from the open responses were further summarized using textual analysis using information retrieval techniques (see Figs. 1, 2 and 3).
Overall, student understanding of natural selection, as measured by the presence of misconceptions in the open responses improved after instruction (Fig. 6).
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