This report presents reviews of research on students’ misconceptions in eleven conceptual areas of chemistry. The most significant misconceptions are described and discussed, together with, where possible, indications about the origins of these.
This report is copyright Vanessa Kind 2004. It is supplied here in the form first published in 2004, and so some links may not be current.
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