THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE CAUSE OF MISCONCEPTION ON DYNAMIC ELECTRICAL CONCEPT A. Halim(a*), Dian Lestari(b), Mustafa(c)
a),c) Department of Physic Education, Training Teacher and Education Faculty, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Aceh Indonesia 23111
b) Teacher of High School in Banda Aceh, Indonesia
*email: bdlhalim[at]yahoo.com
Abstract
This study aims to find out the causes of misconceptions experienced by high school students on the subject matter of dynamic circuit through qualitative approach and descriptive method. The population of this study is all students of class XII SMAN 2 Banda Aceh. The sample was chosen by purposive sampling, so that there were 21 students for the control class and 21 students for the experimental class. Data collection was done by questionnaire technique in the form of questionnaire about the cause of misconceptions consisted of 35 items. The results of data analysis show that the largest percentage of causes of misconception is by students and by context. Thus it can be concluded that the cause of misconception among high school students for dynamic electrical circuitry is caused by the students self as well as the context. The causes of misconceptions in students are more at the stage of cognitive development of students and in most contexts caused by feelings of pleasure/displeasure or free/ depressed
Keywords: identification of causes of misconceptions, dynamic electrical circuits
