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The 11th Misconception? [PDF]

open access: yesCBE—Life Sciences Education, 2011
The recent excellent essay by Robic (2010 ) awakened an old concern of mine regarding whether “sequences,” be they protein or nucleic acid, have escaped the limits of their useful abstraction and acquired the status of a nonexistent physical reality.
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Knowledge and misconceptions of parents of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder at a hospital in South Africa

open access: yesSouth African Family Practice, 2020
Background: Parents’ knowledge and misconception about attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) influences their children’s access to care, its management and outcome.
Neelkant R. Rajcumar, Saeeda Paruk
doaj   +1 more source

A Study on Performance of Secondary School Students in Solving a Spatial Ability Task based on SOLO Theory [PDF]

open access: yesFanāvarī-i āmūzish, 2019
Background and Objective:Recent research by Rivera and Sinclair et al. Shows the impact of spatial abilities on achieving different goals in different fields of study and real life, and suggests the need to extend its learning to all levels of education.
S. Haghjoo, E. Reyhani
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Coexistence of Misconceptions and Scientific Conceptions in Chemistry Professors: A Mental Chronometry and fMRI Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2020
Using mental chronometry and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), 17 pre-university and university professors were tested with a cognitive task that required distinction of true or false statements about chemistry.
Patrice Potvin   +3 more
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Proton Transfer: The First-Year Students’ Conceptual Understanding

open access: yesJTK (Jurnal Tadris Kimiya), 2022
Modern Chemistry education shows acid-base reactions by proton transfer with regard to Bronsted’s theory. Understanding how protons can be transferred by particles in solutions is quite challenging.
Asih Widi Wisudawati, Hans-Dieter Barke
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Misconceptions and Constraints [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In theory, the sterile insect technique (SIT) is applicable to a wide variety of invertebrate pests. However, in practice, the approach has been successfully applied to only a few major pests. Chapters in this volume address possible reasons for this discrepancy, e.g. Klassen, Lance and McInnis, and Robinson and Hendrichs.
Whitten, M., Mahon, R.
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Conceptual change approach in the teaching of physics [PDF]

open access: yesNastava i Vaspitanje, 2015
Last twenty years witnissed many researches of the physics teaching practice, aimed at examining the students' misconceptions and the possibilities of surpassing this problem. The large number of these researches originates in the fact that misconcetions
Muratović Maksuda
doaj   +1 more source

Misshaped chromosomes, mismatched chromatids, and missized genes: easy edits may help mitigate misconceptions commonly represented in published scientific figures

open access: yesJournal of Microbiology & Biology Education
Scientific publications, textbooks, and online educational resources rely on illustrated figures to communicate about molecular structures like genes and chromosomes.
Crystal Uminski   +2 more
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Popular psychological myths: A comparison of students’ beliefs across the psychology major

open access: yesJournal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
The present study investigates the frequency and confidence with which college students endorse popular psychological myths, contrasting introductory psychology students (at the beginning and end of the course) with upper-level psychology majors and ...
Catherine M Gaze
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Measuring the Density Matrix of Quantum-Modeled Cognitive States

open access: yesQuantum Reports
Inspired by the principles of quantum mechanics, we constructed a model of students’ misconceptions about heat and temperature, conceptualized as a quantum system represented by a density matrix.
Wendy Xiomara Chavarría-Garza   +5 more
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