ERIC Number: EJ1359662
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Sep
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-9120
EISSN: EISSN-1361-6552
Determining Turkish High School Students' Misconceptions about Electric Charge Imbalance by Using a Four-Tier Misconception Test
Physics Education, v57 n5 Article 055010 Sep 2022
This study aims to determine Turkish high school students' misconceptions about the electric charge imbalance by using a four-tier misconception test, where the main questions are accompanied by a question about the reason for the answer, as well as student declarations about their degrees of certainty. A four-tier electric charge imbalance misconception test (4-tier ECIMT) was developed by Onder-Celikkanli (2019) in the context of her dissertation. It consists of 24 questions, each consisting of four tiers. It is limited to: (1) electric interactions between charged bodies; (2) electric interactions between a charged body and a neutral body; and (3) electric interactions between two neutral bodies. It was administered to 402 tenth-grade Turkish high school students in Turkey. At the end of the study, some new misconceptions were introduced to the literature. One of the most important ones is 'the magnitude of the electric force between the two objects is independent of the relative permittivity of the medium between them'.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Misconceptions, Energy, Student Attitudes, Physics, Grade 10, Science Tests, Science Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Grade 10
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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