Eaton, Anderson, and Smith 1984

Eaton, Janet F., Charles W. Anderson, and Edward L. Smith. 1984. "Students' misconceptions interfere with science learning: Case studies of fifth-grade students." The Elementary School Journal.

Assumptions can block understanding of scientific concepts. In the last decade, studies of how children understand school subjects (math and science) revealed that their failure to comprehend often results from inadequate background knowledge. Examines the relationship between some fifth graders' misconceptions about

• light
• their science textbook
• their classroom instruction, and
• what they learned.

Hopes that teachers of all school subjects will develop strategies to identify and eradicate misconceptions that interfere with student learning by

• assessing or pretesting students for their conceptions
• receiving more complete information from textbook authors (teachers' guides)
• having access to supplementary teaching materials, and
• receiving assistance from researchers of common student misconceptions.

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