| --- |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| pretty_name: Open Misconceptions |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - education |
| - misconceptions |
| - learning-analytics |
| - assessment |
| size_categories: |
| - n<1K |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: miscon.jsonl |
| --- |
| |
| # Open Misconceptions |
|
|
| A public catalogue of misconceptions with stable IDs. Each row is one |
| record: a belief a learner could hold, its kind, the evidence pattern that |
| reveals it (with a concrete example), discriminators against slips and |
| neighbouring misconceptions, alignments to external schemes, and |
| provenance. |
|
|
| This dataset mirrors `dist/miscon.jsonl` from the tagged release of |
| <https://github.com/open-misconceptions/miscon-data>. The canonical form of a record is |
| its stable URI, for example |
| <https://open-misconceptions.github.io/miscon-data/m/math.fractions.add-across>. |
|
|
| ## Provenance caveat |
|
|
| Most records are `status: draft` with `trust: low`: drafted from the cited |
| literature and not yet reviewed. Check `status`, `trust` and `reviews` |
| before treating a record as settled. `reviewed` records carry a human |
| accept or an attested review; `trust` is computed from the reviews against |
| the repository's reviewer registry. |
|
|
| ## Fields |
|
|
| | Field | Meaning | |
| |-------|---------| |
| | `id` | Stable ID (`math.fractions.add-across`). Cite as `miscon:<id>`. | |
| | `uri` | Stable URI. | |
| | `uuid` | Opaque identifier; the CASE `CFItem.identifier`. | |
| | `version`, `status`, `trust` | Record semver; lifecycle (`draft`, `llm-reviewed`, `reviewed`, `deprecated`, `merged`); computed trust (`low`, `medium`, `high`). | |
| | `title`, `statement`, `notes` | Short label, the belief as the learner holds it, and optional notes such as likely origins. | |
| | `kind` | Mechanism: overgeneralization, undergeneralization, procedural-bug, notation-confusion, misapplied-analogy. | |
| | `domain`, `about`, `level_band`, `locale` | Subject, concepts, education levels, language. | |
| | `evidence_patterns` | List of `{item_shape, signature, example{item, expected, response}}`. | |
| | `discriminators` | `vs_slip` and `vs{<neighbour-id>: text}`. | |
| | `relations` | `conflicts_with`, `resolved_by`, and provisional `confusable_with`, `specializes`, `co_occurs_with`, `blocked_by`. | |
| | `alignments` | `{scheme, code, uri, relation, note}` into CCSS, progmiscon, etc. | |
| | `provenance` | `{sources[], origin, notes}`. | |
| | `reviews`, `history`, `license` | Reviews (`kind`, `by`, `date`, `scope`, `verdict`), merge/supersede history and changelog, always `CC-BY-4.0`. | |
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| Full field documentation: <https://github.com/open-misconceptions/miscon-data/blob/main/schema/README.md>. |
|
|
| ## Load |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| ds = load_dataset("open-misconceptions/miscon-data") |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Cite |
|
|
| Concept DOI (latest release): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22416011. Each release also has a version DOI (v0.1.1: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22416012). Author and title metadata are in `CITATION.cff` in the repository. |
|
|
| ## Licence |
|
|
| CC BY 4.0. Attribute "Open Misconceptions (Vikram Maram and contributors)" |
| and link to the repository or the record URI. |
|
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