The Description 12th Grade Students' Conception of Electromagnetics

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10.2991/icmsed-16.2017.43How to use a DOI?

Keywords

conception; 12thgrade students; electromagnetic concept

Abstract

Electromagnetic concepts are abstract, difficult and complex concepts. There are different conceptions understood by students in learning electromagnetic concept. This study aims to identify and describe the conception of high school students who have been studying electromagnetic. Descriptive method used in this research. The subjects consist of 27 respondents of 12th grade students. The data collection done by providing an essay test instruments referred to test models of Electromagnetism Concept Inventory (EMCI) those includes sub-concepts of Electrostatic, Magnetism, Electromagnetic induction and Electromagnetic waves. The result of data analysis shows that only 2% of respondents answered correctly on the sub-concepts of magnetism. In other sub-concepts there were no respondents who answered correctly. Moreover, the conceptions understood by respondents about electromagnetic concept were very diverse.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Rendy W. Wardana
AU  - Ms. Liliasari
AU  - Paulus C Tjiang
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