Identification of the causes of misconception on the concept of dynamic electricity

Abstract

This study aims to find out the causes of misconceptions on the high school students in the subject matter of dynamic circuit through mixed method. The population of this study is all students of class XII SMAN 2 Banda Aceh. The sample was chosen by random 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 which is called the Instrument for Identifying the Causes of Misconceptions (IICM) consisted of 35 items was developed by researchers with validity and reliability indices respectively 0.75 and 0.85. 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 student’s 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.