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    "pk": 31683,
    "title": "Students' Beliefs About the Circulatory System: Are Misconceptions Universal?",
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    "abstract": "Misconceptions are a special case of false\nbeliefs. They should be both robust and important\nto a person's belief system. Chi (1992) has\nasserted that in some domains, such as the\ncirculatory system, students initial conceptions\nare of the same general ontological class as the\ntextbook conceptions. They should therefore not\nbe as robust as the initial conceptions in domains\nsuch as physics, in which the initial conception\nmay be of the wrong class. The initial beliefs of\n12 eighth grade students about the circulatory\nsystem included a variety of false beliefs.\nStatements of both correct and incorrect beliefs\nwere used to generate maps of students' initial\nmental models. This allowed an assessment of the\nimportance of the false beliefs. Even deeply\nembedded beliefs were removed by instruction.\nImportance was also measured by the impact of\nfalse beliefs on a pre-test, which was not\nsignificant. Resistance to instruction was tested\nby having students read a text. One analysis\nchecked individual false beliefs, to see if\ncontradiction by the text resulted in false belief\nremoval. Beliefs which were contradicted were\ngenerally removed. These results are not\nconsistent with the notion that students bring\nwith them to instruction important and robust\nmisconceptions about the circulatory system.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Submitted Presentations",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Nicholas",
            "middle_name": "de",
            "last_name": "Leeuw",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pittsburgh",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1993-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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