The purposes of this study are to investigate Korean middle school students` conceptions related to electric current, and to analyze their changes in explanations about current after their observations of the related phenomena The subjects of the stu...
The purposes of this study are to investigate Korean middle school students` conceptions related to electric current, and to analyze their changes in explanations about current after their observations of the related phenomena The subjects of the study were 20 students from one middle school in Seoul The conclusions of the study are as follows: 1. Korean middle school students have various misconceptions such as current consumption model, sequential model, monopole model, non-various current model, the most students have sequential model 2. When an evidence is introduced, some students do not perceive the phenomena as the teacher attempts. 3. When an evidence was introduced, after observation of the evidence some of the students who had misconceptions changed their explanations, which were not always correct explanations, and the others did not change their explanations, which their observations were mostly incorrect.