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Abstract
This article describes the rationale for, and development of, an online instrument that helps identify commonly held science misconceptions. Science Beliefs is a 47-item instrument that targets topics in chemistry, physics, biology, earth science, and astronomy. It utilizes a true or false, along with a written-explanation, format. The true or false responses provide a cursory view of the extent to which specific beliefs are prevalent, while the accompanying explanations reveal underlying reasons for those beliefs. The stages of instrument development, reliability and validity information, along with the original sources of the items are discussed. The developed instrument has the potential to help science educators understand some specific barriers to deepening understanding across a range of science topics.
The editors of the Journal of Science Teacher Education hereby retract the article "What Are They Thinking? The Development and Use of an Instrument That Identifies Common Science Misconceptions" by Mary Stein, Charles R. Barman and Timothy Larrabee, which appeared in issue 2, Volume 18, April 2007, of Journal of Science Teacher Education (18:233–241). The article is being retracted because it substantively duplicates a previously published manuscript by the same authors, "A Computer-Based Instrument That Identifies Common Science Misconceptions" by Timothy Larrabee, Mary Stein and Charles Barman, which appeared in Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, Volume 6, issue 3, 6:306–312, published online September, 2006.
An erratum to this article can be found online at 10.1007/s10972-010-9184-1
The editors of the Journal of Science Teacher Education hereby retract the article "What Are They Thinking? The Development and Use of an Instrument That Identifies Common Science Misconceptions" by Mary Stein, Charles R. Barman and Timothy Larrabee, which appeared in issue 2, Volume 18, April 2007, of Journal of Science Teacher Education (18:233–241). The article is being retracted because it substantively duplicates a previously published manuscript by the same authors, "A Computer-Based Instrument That Identifies Common Science Misconceptions" by Timothy Larrabee, Mary Stein and Charles Barman, which appeared in Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, Volume 6, issue 3, 6:306–312, published online September, 2006.
An erratum to this article can be found online at 10.1007/s10972-010-9184-1