Using CCOText assisted by dynamic model and analogy to fostering students’ misconception about the concept of heat conduction

Abstract

The aim of this study was to obtain an overview of the effect of using conceptual change oriented text (CCOText) assisted by dynamic models and analogy in the remedial teaching of the concept of heat conduction towards the remediation of misconceptions of high school students. CCOText consists of four text sections. In the third section of the text, which is the text part of the scientific explanation, the description is aided by dynamic model and analogy. The method used in this study is a pre-experiment with one group pretest-posttest design. The number of research subjects was 38 students consisting of 22 female and 16 male students, in one of the high schools in the Bandung district of West Java province. The subjects were selected by purposive sampling technique. Data were collected by conception test in the four tier test format related to the concept of heat conduction. The results showed that the use of CCOText in remedial teaching could be remediating 95% of high school students who had misconceptions on the concept of heat conduction. These results indicate that the use of CCOText assisted by Dynamic models and analogy has a high effectiveness in fostering students’ misconception about the concept of heat conduction.