Novice mistakes: are the folk wisdoms correct?

  • Authors:
  • James C. Spohrer;Elliot Soloway

  • Affiliations:
  • Yale Univ., New Haven, CT;Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

An evaluation of two folk wisdoms serves to elucidate the underlying or "deep-structure" reasons for novice errors.