Student Concepts about What Happens In a Simple Electrical Circuit with a Current Source

dc.creator	Kemal YÜRÜMEZOĞLU
dc.creator	Aytekin ÇÖKELEZ
dc.date	2010-09-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:22:17Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:22:17Z
dc.identifier	1304-6020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/8cb0ea1c423f4f6b82ad5630c57fa65a
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/29365
dc.description	This project was designed to help students find an answer to the question, “What happens in a simple electrical circuit?” using conductive wire, a light bulb and a battery, in the context of the new science and technology program in the second-tier primary education curriculum. The purpose of the project was, with the help of the example of a simple electrical circuit, to discover the relationship between what students perceived and what they conceptualized in their minds. The study was undertaken in two schools in the province of Samsun, Turkey with a sampling of 428 students in the 6th (n:163), 7th (n:119) and 8th (n:146) grades. The common trend in the findings of the qualitative data analysis may be summarized as follows: It was found that students had difficulty interpreting events or phenomena that occurred simultaneously, that they were prone to easily substitute one concept for another, that they preferred to substitute mental models in place of scientific models in the case of unobservable phenomena and as a result, that the construction in their minds of the concepts of energy and electricity remained confused and disconnected. The study suggests that scientific models may be used in both supporting a basic concept of the electrical circuit rather than the idea of the simple circuit, and in analyzing the relationship between concepts of energy and electricity, particularly in the case of unobservable phenomena.
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 147-166 (2010)
dc.subject	Science Education
dc.subject	Electricity
dc.subject	Electrical Circuit
dc.subject	Current
dc.subject	Energy
dc.subject	Model
dc.subject	Mental Model
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	Student Concepts about What Happens In a Simple Electrical Circuit with a Current Source
dc.type	article