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We thank Carl Wieman and Sarah Gilbert for helpful advice about this study and for providing additional TPI data. We thank our colleagues in our institution’s central teaching and learning unit and our science teaching and learning committee for piloting the instrument and offering helpful feedback. We thank Gwen Lawrie (University of Queensland) for helpful comments on the draft paper. We particularly thank our anonymous referees and the editor for very insightful suggestions that have greatly enhanced this article. Finally, we are very grateful to those instructors who completed the TPI and engaged in workshops on the TPI results. This work was funded by a teaching fellowship to M.J.D. from the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation and the Faculty of Science, University of Queensland.

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