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Schoon, Kenneth J. – 1989
Misconceptions interfere with the formation of new insights and provide a faulty foundation. This causes difficulty in the learning of new materials. Therefore, effective teachers strive to know which misconceptions students have, and then develop a plan by which these suspected misconceptions can be corrected or averted. This paper reports on an…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Mapping, Concept Formation, Earth Science