Abstract
This research aimed at analyzing the difficulties experienced by college students in acquiring Static Fluid concept. This research employed descriptive quantitative procedure and involved 48 college students of Physics Education Department. The instrument of this research was 13 items of reasoned-multiple choices test. According to the results, although there was an improvement, most college students were difficult to understand certain concepts. This research revelaed some difficulties experienced by students on certain concept. The difficulties experienced by students are as follows: students failed to portray the forces that worked on certain object and as a result, they failed to determine the ratio of pressure. In addition, the students were difficult to determine the changing of water pressure on the closed vessel based on major concept of hydrostatics and Pascal’s Law.
Highlights
The students concept mastery is one of the primary focus in a learning process
The students test answers were analyzed by using scale values 1-13 on 13 reasoned-multiple choices questions as the instrument
The test was administered after the students obtaining Static Fluid topic on Fundamental Physics Course
Summary
The students concept mastery is one of the primary focus in a learning process. As a matter of fact, students remain encountering a difficulty in mastering several concepts (Shishigu et al, 2018; Wambugu & Changeiywo, 2008), even experiencing a misconception. In the context of Physics lesson, one of the concepts that is commonly difficult to be understand is Static Fluid. In the real-life context of students, some phenomenon could be related with the concept of Static Fluid. During the learning process in classroom, most students have carried an initial knowledge that was acquired from their observation and concluded from the phenomena they observed (Saifullah et al, 2017). Dissimilarity between conception acquired by students and the verifiable scientific knowledge is commonly referred as misconception (NRC, 2012)
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