Does the material attempt to address commonly held student ideas?

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Indicators of meeting the criterion

1. The material explicitly addresses commonly held ideas.
2. The material includes questions, tasks, or activities that are likely to help students progress from their initial ideas, for example, by ^[5]
1. explicitly challenging students' ideas, for example, by comparing their predictions about a phenomenon to what actually happens
2. prompting students to contrast commonly held ideas with the scientifically correct ideas, and resolve differences between them
3. extending correct commonly held ideas that have limited scope.
3. The material includes suggestions to teachers about how to take into account their own students' ideas.

Rating Scheme
If there is research on commonly held student ideas:
Excellent: The material meets indicators 1 and 2 for a considerable proportion of commonly held ideas that are documented in the literature.
Satisfactory: The material meets indicators 1 and 2 for some commonly held ideas that are documented in the literature.
Poor: The material meets the first indicator at best.

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