Identifying 9th Grader Students’ Previous Knowledge and Misconceptions about Plane Mirrors

dc.creator	Özgür ANIL
dc.creator	Hüseyin KÜÇÜKÖZER
dc.date	2010-09-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:15:25Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:15:25Z
dc.identifier	1304-6020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/cbbd939b0d9b4a789cb7302964f56307
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/17636
dc.description	The study aims to identify secondary school ninth-grade students’ previous knowledge and misconceptions about plane mirrors. To this end, the data were collected by using “the Conceptual Understanding Test on the Unit about Mirrors” and “Semi-structured Interview Forms”. The conceptual understanding test consists of a total of four questions about “image formation”, “image characteristics” and “visual field”, the titles under the unit on plane mirrors. The test was administered to a total of 310 students from two different high schools. In evaluating the conceptual understanding test, the researchers first wrote down the correct responses to the questions and categorized the students’ responses as “codable”, “uncodable” and “no response”. Codable responses were further grouped under the categories “scientifically acceptable” and “scientifically unacceptable”; and the data were then analyzed. As a result of the examinations on the data obtained from the conceptual understanding test and the interviews held with a total of 16 students, students were determined to have misconceptions about “the relationship between observer’s position and image”, “the position of image on a plane mirror”, “the relationship between the object and image”, “image characteristics”, and “the factors upon which visual field depends”.
dc.language	Turkish
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Ekip Ltd. Sti
dc.relation	www.tused.org
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1304-6020
dc.source	Journal of Turkish Science Education, Vol 7, Iss 3, Pp 104-122 (2010)
dc.subject	Plane Mirror
dc.subject	Conceptual Understanding Test
dc.subject	Misconceptions
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Identifying 9th Grader Students’ Previous Knowledge and Misconceptions about Plane Mirrors
dc.type	article