Students' Misconceptions in Psychology: How You Ask Matters...Sometimes.
Students' Misconceptions in Psychology: How You Ask Matters...Sometimes.
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学生对心理学的误解：你如何提问......有时很重要。
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2012
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通讯作者：
P. Kowalski
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A. Taylor;P. Kowalski
对心理学的误解在入门学生中很普遍。这些误解究竟有多普遍以及如何改变这些误解取决于有效的评估方法。最常见的评估方法，真/假问卷，是有问题的。本研究比较了真/假与强迫选择格式，以确定是否格式给学生的误解不同的估计。心理学导论的学生（N = 165）回答了39个错误概念的真/假和强迫选择格式。学生在不同的格式进行评估时的准确性不同，真/假的准确率为33.05%，强迫选择的准确率为41.29%。在对单个项目的分析中，我们观察到一些项目在不同格式的准确性水平上没有差异，而其他项目则有所不同。我们的结论是，真/假的方法评估误解可能高估学生的误解水平，并建议继续关注研究人员如何评估误解。
Misconceptions about psychology are prevalent among introductory students. Just how prevalent and what can be done to change these misconceptions depends on valid methods of assessment. The most common method of assessment, the true/false questionnaire, is problematic. The present study compared true/false with forced choice formats to determine whether the formats give different estimates of student misconceptions. Introductory psychology students (N = 165) answered 39 misconceptions in both the true/false and forced choice formats. Students differed in accuracy when assessed with the different formats, with 33.05% accuracy for true/false and 41.29% accuracy for forced choice. In the analyses of individual items we observed that some items did not differ in level of accuracy across formats and other items did differ. We conclude that the true/false method of assessing misconceptions may overestimate students' level of misconception and recommend continued attention to how researchers assess misconceptions.