A Study on the Understanding of the Concepts of Electricity among Upper Secondary School Pupils (I)

Abstract

Primarily, in constructing an educational curriculum, the learning contents and their levels of understanding are based in line with the advancement of grades in school. However, it had previously been studied on the topic of electricity that the phenomenon of understanding of electricity decreased with the advancement of grades. In this study, with the respondents from the upper secondary school pupils, the changes in understanding of the topic of electricity in various aspects were obtained as follows: 1. In this survey, for twelve of the 18 concepts of electricity, all the three grades in upper secondary school gave lower than 50% of the correct response. 2. As in the case of the previous studies had pointed out, this study also found that the understanding of electricity decreased With the advancement of grades. 3. The understanding of the concepts of electricity was generally low. On the average, six or seven of the 18 concepts could not be understood by the pupils. It was supported in this study that the mean value, variance corresponding to the advancement of grades had a tendency to decrease.