Identification of Students Misconceptions in School and College on Kinematics

Eka Murdani, S. Sumarli

2018

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the misconceptions that are often experienced by students in school and college on kinematics. The method that was used is quantitative descriptive. The sample was 48 students and 144 college students in Singkawang that had studied the kinematics. The results showed that the average of students who have misconceptions still very high at 76.0%. The identification results showed that the average of students experienced misconceptions on several kinematics topics, that are (a) Position, Distance, Displacement, Velocity, and Acceleration, occurred a misconception of 67.7%, students assumed that the distance is traveled by objects is equal to the displacement magnitude, (b) Regular Straight Motion and Regular Straight-Changed Motion, occurred a misconception of 93.8%, students considered that objects are moving vertically upward, working two forces that are an upward force is greater than the gravitational force which downward direction, (c) Parabolic Motion, occurred a misconception of 92.7%, students assumed that slope of a tangent to the parabolic motion curve can be used to calculate the magnitude and direction of velocity, and (d) Circular Motion, occurred a misconception of 83.0%, students assumed that objects are moving horizontal circular with constant speed have a constant velocity.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Murdani E. and Sumarli S. (2018). Identification of Students Misconceptions in School and College on Kinematics. In Proceedings of the Borneo International Conference on Education and Social Sciences - Volume 1: BICESS, ISBN 978-989-758-470-1, pages 75-82. DOI: 10.5220/0009016800002297

in Bibtex Style

@conference{bicess18,
author={Eka Murdani and S. Sumarli},
title={Identification of Students Misconceptions in School and College on Kinematics},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Borneo International Conference on Education and Social Sciences - Volume 1: BICESS,},
year={2018},
pages={75-82},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009016800002297},
isbn={978-989-758-470-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the Borneo International Conference on Education and Social Sciences - Volume 1: BICESS,
TI - Identification of Students Misconceptions in School and College on Kinematics
SN - 978-989-758-470-1
AU - Murdani E.
AU - Sumarli S.
PY - 2018
SP - 75
EP - 82
DO - 10.5220/0009016800002297