Abstract

This research is aimed to analyze pre-services science teachers’ conceptual understanding level on several electricity concepts. This research belongs to descriptive research. The subjects of the research were 88 pre-services science teachers of Sebelas Maret University from physic and science education in academic year of 2017/2018. The instrument of the research was multiple choices with open-ended responses. Based on the result of answer analysis, it showed that most of pre-services science teachers had partial understanding with misconception on subtopic of characteristic of electrical current in series and parallel circuit. Meanwhile, the lowest level of conceptual understanding was on subtopic effect of charging and discharging capacitor to the loads. Due to the number of pre-services science teachers whose misconception on several electricity concepts, it is expected that teachers are able to develop the appropriate learning method because electricity concept is closely related to the daily life.

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