The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of analogy instruction for correcting middle school students' misconceptions on electric current. A total of 23 subjects ranged from 7 to 9 grade were sampled as volunteer from an urban area middle s...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of analogy instruction for correcting middle school students' misconceptions on electric current. A total of 23 subjects ranged from 7 to 9 grade were sampled as volunteer from an urban area middle school. Two group pretest-posttest design was used. A formative test was also administered to check the subjects' understanding about the treatment instruction. An automatic doll analogy was developed for this study. As result, the analogy instruction was effective for correcting most misconceptions on electric current, especially SF(sequential flow) idea, RI(resistance irrelevant) idea, and DP(current at direct circuit greater than at pararrel circuit) idea.