%0 Journal Article
%T Using Analogies in Determining and Overcoming High School Students¡¯ Misconceptions about Electric Current
%A Isil Aykutlu
%A Ahmet £¿lhan £¿EN
%J Necatibey Faculty of Education, Electronic Journal of Science and Mathematics Education
%D 2011
%I Necatibey Faculty of Education
%X The study, which consists of two sections, was participated by science track students (n:146) studying at 11th grade. The first section involves an analysis on whether analogies could be utilized as supplementary evaluation tools in determining students¡¯ misconceptions. Students were asked to take a Electricity Concept Test and create analogies at the beginning and end of the Electric Current topic. The second section of the study administered to a similar group of participants aimed to analyze the effects of analogies on overcoming students¡¯ misconceptions about Electric Current topic. The research concluded that electric concept test and analogies could be utilized as supplementary evaluation tools in determining students¡¯ misconceptions and teaching using analogies was more efficient than the plain instruction method without analogies in overcoming the misconceptions, creating the conceptual change and increasing students¡¯ achievement levels.
%K Electric current
%K analogy
%K misconception
%K conceptual change
%K physics education.
%U http://www.nef.balikesir.edu.tr/~dergi/makaleler/yayinda/11/EFMED_FZE156.pdf