An Exploration of Student Misconceptions in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department
Journal Title: International Scientific and Vocational Studies Journal - Year 2018, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
In this study, the common misconceptions are identified and regarding solutions are offered for Electrical and Electronics Engineering students. From the standpoint of knowledge, most important substructure of education is concept teaching. The biggest obstacle to be faced in concept teaching is misconceptions that can be avoided by researches. According to previous studies, students’ success, interest and motivations regarding the electrical and electronics field is lower compared to other fields. One of the reasons of this is that, the concepts being used are notional and students fail to make these concepts meaningful. As a result of this structure, they are faced with learning difficulties. These learning difficulties set the basis of misconceptions of students. By this study, a conception test is created in order to determine misconceptions. The test consists of one right choice, expected misconception and a wrong choice which is not related with the subject. Also, there are open-end questions at the end of each test question in order to determine the students’ views regarding their choices. By the result of content analysis, student common misconceptions are determined and solutions are offered to avoid these misconceptions.
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Ahmet Karaarslan, Şaban Çetin
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