substantive learning impediment

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a type of learning impediment – where learning may occur which does not match the intended learning because the student interprets teaching in terms of existing ideas in a different way to intended

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.