Misconceptions on the electricity and magnetism
R Meikana- S Syuhendri- N Andriani

Universitas Sriwijaya

Abstract

It has been categorized the senior high school students^ conceptions on the electricity and magnetism topics in Indonesia. The research used descriptive qualitative method by Certainty of Response Index (CRI) technique analysis. The instrument used was Electricity and Magnetism Conceptual Assessment, comprising of 20 multiple choice questions with open reasoning. The research found that 58,5% of the participants hold misconceptions on the topic of electricity and magnetism, 27,5% of them experience lack of knowledge, and only 14% understand the concepts correctly. These revealed that the students experienced some strong misconceptions on the electricity and magnetism topic. The most common misconceptions experienced were about electric charge, i.e. 75% and circuit distribution, i.e 69.2%. While the lowest one was on the electric fields, i.e. 35%. The results are expected to provide information about students^ misconceptions on the electricity and magnetism and can serve as a guide for further research to find out the appropriate conceptual change teaching strategies to recover the misconceptions and to improve students^ conceptual understandings

Keywords: Misconceptions, electricity and magnetism.

Topic: Physics Education