Analogical instruction reduced students' misconceptions about direct current circuits more than traditional instruction, though not completely¶

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q2 i? Misconceptions (wrong answers marked very confident) declined more in the analogy group than in the control group, but persisted in both groups after treatment. → Ugur et al. 2012

Evidence¶

Ugur et al. 2012¶

Gokhan Ugur, Refik Dilber, Yasemin Senpolat, Bahattin Duzgun. (2012). The Effects of Analogy on Students' Understanding of Direct Current Circuits and Attitudes towards Physics Lessons. European Journal of Educational Research, 1(3), 211-223. http://www.akademikplus.com/eujer/index.html

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Percentages of misconceptions per question (Table 2) before and after instruction for both groups; misconceptions were coded as wrong answers to the first two steps marked "very confident" on the 12-item Electric Concepts Test, and misunderstandings were "not eliminated completely in the two groups".

"According to the results, conceptual misunderstandings were not eliminated completely in the two groups, although the experimental group’s misunderstandings were re duced more than in the other group."

Discussion¶

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