Preconceived Notions

There are several ways to describe misconceptions but the longer they are unchallenged the harder it is to reverse them. This article provides some common misconceptions and then presents f... See More

There are several ways to describe misconceptions but the longer they are unchallenged the harder it is to reverse them. This article provides some common misconceptions and then presents five tips to overcoming them. The author also provides some questions to evaluate curricula materials for misconceptions. This is a useful article for background understanding of how and why one must try to reverse these preconceived notions.

That is True!

In this article, the author starts by defining misconceptions followed by listing some common misconceptions that may occur in the mind of student through the process of learning science. La... See More

In this article, the author starts by defining misconceptions followed by listing some common misconceptions that may occur in the mind of student through the process of learning science. Later, the author proposes some teaching strategies that are capable of helping the teacher re-mediate students' misconceptions about science. As a chemistry teacher, I found this article very useful because it identified explicitly some of the teaching strategies that I always apply in class but i did never know that they may help re-mediate students' misconceptions.