Diagnosis of Students’ Conception on Light and Optic Topics with Four-Tier Test

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10.2991/978-2-38476-283-5_18How to use a DOI?

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Diagnostic Test; Dour-Tier Test; Light and Optic Topics; Students Conception

Abstract

Students’ conception is defined as the way students make sense of a range of natural phenomena. Identifying students’ conception is essential because it leads to more focused teaching and enables teachers to prevent and eliminate misconceptions. The four-tier test is chosen because it is a stronger and more sensitive diagnostic test. Light and optic topics are chosen because it is an essential topic at school and there are repetitive misconceptions in these topics. Therefore, students’ conception on light and optic topics is diagnosed with the four-tier test in this research. The instruments were constructed from a list of indicators. The questions were administered online to 817 8th-grade students. Students’ conception is categorized into five which are scientific knowledge, false positive, false negative, misconception, and lack of knowledge. Frequencies and percentage are calculated with excel program and the data is further analyzed with Mann-Whitney U test to see if there is any significant difference between students who have learnt the topics and who have not. The result shows that in general, students have more misconceptions than scientific knowledge, students did best in the formation of images on mirrors, students did worst in the optical instruments, and there is no significant difference between students who have learnt the topics and those who have not. The causes are unconfronted misconceptions, online learning, and unfamiliarity. This indicates that teachers need to address common misconceptions in class, facilitate conceptual change through hands-on activities, and relate the concept with students’ daily life.

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AU  - Rossy Andini Herindra Putri
AU  - Ari Widodo
AU  - Lilit Rusyati
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/09/03
TI  - Diagnosis of Students’ Conception on Light and Optic Topics with Four-Tier Test
BT  - Proceedings of the  9th Mathematics, Science, and Computer Science Education International Seminar (MSCEIS 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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