Saturday, November 27, 2010

CLOSURE

Students’ misconceptions cause teachers a lot of stress and frustration on why students cannot follow their teaching (Resnick, 1983). Misconception needs to be repaired and remedied and it can only be done by changing the conceptual framework of students (Resnick, 1983). It is not enough to just merely inform or advise the student on the misconception that they have. Neither does repeating a lesson or making it clearer help students who have already formed strong reasons for their misconceptions (Champagne, Gunstone & Klopfer, 1983; Resnick, 1983; and McDermott, 1984). Teachers have to explore and understand why these misconceptions arise and then plan a strategy on how to remedy the problem.
Teachers must help students to reconstruct correct conceptions (Mestre, 1987). Misconception results from students belief systems and also their thinking process and the only effective way to correct misconception is to change these misconceptions from the inside, which is from the students’ systems.

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