{"id":84,"date":"2011-06-20T16:08:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T21:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2011-12-07T00:16:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T00:16:02","slug":"page43-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/?page_id=84","title":{"rendered":"Identifying Student Misconceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After determining the science content domain of the student assessment, student misconceptions were identified for each of the sub-ideas listed in the <a href=\"\">content clarifications<\/a>.\u00a0 Identifying student misconceptions about the targeted concepts provided a window into students\u2019 thinking about the content and generated distractors for the multiple-choice items.<\/p>\n<p>Student misconceptions were identified in two ways:\u00a0 (1) through a literature review of student misconceptions, and (2) through open-ended tasks and interviews about the specific science content.\u00a0 Although there is a substantial amount of literature on student misconceptions for some science content areas, including Force &amp; Motion, there was a relatively small research base for Flow of Matter &amp; Energy in Living Systems, and Plate Tectonics.<\/p>\n<p>We were able to utilize the rich research base on learning in Force &amp; Motion.\u00a0\u00a0Identifying student thinking related to this content area required an extensive literature search, but no original research was needed. An extensive list of student pre-conceptions and misconceptions was gleaned from the literature, and then each area of difficulty was associated with one or more of the sub-ideas in the content clarification for Force &amp; Motion.<\/p>\n<p>We <span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">administered open-ended tasks through interviews with <\/span>students about the ideas in Flow of Matter &amp; Energy in Living Systems and Plate Tectonics.\u00a0 A sample item is shown below.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Just as you have grown throughout your life, a tiny acorn grows into a small seedling, and then into a large oak tree.\u00a0 Where does the material that makes up the tree come from?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Student interview responses included:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><strong>Weight from water the plant absorbed by its roots; and stored light energy.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The plant that produced the seed gave it nutrients to grow.\u00a0 As it grows, the roots go into the ground to get its own nutrients.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The nutrients go through the roots, then\u00a0go\u00a0into\u00a0making the tree.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>It just grows and develops layers of wood. It uses nutrients absorbed through the roots to make new wood.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ATLAST researchers identified the following <em>misconception<\/em> based on these responses:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Plants make food from water and air, but it is not transformed into the plant\u2019s body. For example, the mass of a tree comes from water and soil (ignoring contribution of carbon dioxide).\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More information about eliciting student thinking can be found in the <a href=\"\">Eliciting Student Thinking Training<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After determining the science content domain of the student assessment, student misconceptions were identified for each of the sub-ideas listed in the content clarifications.\u00a0 Identifying student misconceptions about the targeted concepts provided a window into students\u2019 thinking about the content&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":82,"menu_order":32120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/242"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}