A STUDY ABOUT STUDENTS’ MISCONCEPTIONS IN FORCE AND MOTION CONCEPTS BY INCORPORATING A WEB-ASSISTED PHYSICS PROGRAM 

ABSTRACT

The aim of this study was to incorporate a web-assisted program to normal traditional classroom instruction and study about students’ misconceptions in force and motion concepts in physics. The Web-based physics program was incorporated with the traditional lecture. Specifically, 30% of class time was allocated for using this tutorial program, and 70 % of class time was used for normal lecture. The Force Concept Inventory (FCI) was used as pre- and posttest. Although there were not any significant results between FCI post test scores and group memberships, and gain scores and group memberships (F _1,123 = 2.023, p> 0.05); relative to FCI pre-and post test mean difference scores, group membership (being control and treatment groups) was statistically significant at .05 (F _1,123 = 4.307 , p< 0.05).