Diagnosing students' misconception in Hydrostatic Pressure through a 4-tier test.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to record and highlight the misconceptions of Greek junior high school students regarding the concept of hydrostatic pressure. Hydrostatic pressure is included in most international curricula for this age group and in Greece, is introduced in the context of the study of fluid equilibrium in the second grade of the junior high school. After thorough international literature review and interviews with teachers who teach the physics course, to discover the students' way of thinking and their common misconceptions in the case of hydrostatic pressure concept, the researchers of this study created targeted questionnaires for students aged 12-13 years old. The method followed to determine the misconceptions in this article is the distribution of a 4 - tier test to a sampl

SUBMITTER: Bessas N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11626058 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature