Analysis of College Students’ Misconception on Geometrical Optics

DOI

10.2991/icst-18.2018.181How to use a DOI?

Keywords

misconception, optical concept, degree of confidence

Abstract

This research aims to analyze college students’ misconception on optical concept. Participants were 36 college students of sixth semester from one intact class. College students’ misconception of geometrical optics were measured by a three-tier misconception test. From the data collected we were determined the students’ misconceptions profile that find students have misconceptions in each sub-chapter. Then from data analysis we found that: (1) percentage of first tier true answer is higher than percentage of second tier true answer for the whole class, but opposite for all students who suffer misconception (2) there is a significant opposite/negative correlation between students’ misconception and the score they get (3) there is no significant correlation between students’ score and degree of confidence for their answer to the problem.

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© 2018, 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/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Setyo Admoko
AU  - Titin Sunarti
AU  - Mukhayyarotin Niswati Rodliyatul Jauhariyah
AU  - Suliyanah Suliyanah
AU  - Nadi Suprapto
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Analysis of College Students’ Misconception on Geometrical Optics
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Science and Technology (ICST 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 896
EP  - 903
SN  - 2589-4943
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icst-18.2018.181
DO  - 10.2991/icst-18.2018.181
ID  - Admoko2018/12
ER  -