Students’ Perception on Learning Unit Conversion Through a Smart Conversion Card Tool
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210424.087How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- flashcards, unit conversion, learning tools, physics
- Abstract
In the fundamental of Physics, the measurement of physical quantities is expressed in terms of units. However, most students have been having difficulties in understanding the correct method to perform unit conversion of any physical quantities. To tackle this problem, the use of flashcards namely Smart Conversion Card (SCC) tool was introduced in the teaching and learning process. This paper discusses the students’ perception towards the effectiveness of using flashcards in Physics I (PHY430) course, in order to give them better understanding of the concept of unit conversion that need to be applied throughout the syllabus. The flashcards were distributed among students who enrolled in the PHY430 course during their first semester of study in the Bachelor’s Degree (Hons) Computational Mathematics programme in UiTM Branch of Negeri Sembilan, Campus of Seremban. The effectiveness of using flashcards as a learning tool was demonstrated through scores obtained by the students’ responses in the pre-test and post-test questions. Based on the results obtained, 84% of students managed to perform unit conversion after using the flashcards, and 70% of them improved their score in post-test questions.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Siti Nafisah Md Rashid AU - Azlina Baha AU - Dzeelfa Zainal Abidin PY - 2021 DA - 2021/04/26 TI - Students’ Perception on Learning Unit Conversion Through a Smart Conversion Card Tool BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Science and Technology on Social Science (ICAST-SS 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 448 EP - 451 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210424.087 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210424.087 ID - Rashid2021 ER -