MO EDU-SAIL Learning Packages Developing Assessment Capable Learners: Part 3 | Page 37

Professional Development to Practice
Misconceptions
 Students’ responses or work show they have learned
something inaccurately, have formed a conception that is
not based on current thinking, or are misapplying rules
Examples:
 Multiple meaning words – students think a word used
in a content area means the same as common usage
 Social studies – thinking that ‘civil war’ always means
the U.S. Civil War or misconceptions about ‘socialism’
(Chappuis, 2015)