Misconceptions and their change in university-level astronomy courses

M. Zeilik · Candace Schau · Nancy Mattern

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Students enter courses with prior knowledge of the subject area. Unfortunately, these naive notions often are misconceptions (or “folk concepts”) that hinder learning of appropriate concepts in the field.

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