Investigating Pre-service Primary School Teachers Conception on Heat Concept
N Hermita1, O Kurniaman1, E Noviana1, A Widyanthi1, A Suhandi2,3, E Syaodih2, A Malik4, R Hamid5, K Mahbubah3, S Sapriadil3, , A Samsudin3

Universitas Riau

Abstract

This study reports on the scheming procedure which is to improve and to scheme a four-tier diagnostic test instruments, which has not been defined in the works. It is an improved procedure of the two-tier test elements. As in two-tier tests, its answer and reason tiers degree pre-service primary school teachers satisfied understanding and descriptive understanding, individually. The two added tiers measure the equal of confidence of pre-service primary school teachers in the correctness of their certain choices for the answer and reason tiers individually. The four-tier diagnostic test was concentrating on heat concept. It was restrained to 43 pre-service primary school teachers advanced. They were acceptably trained on the earlier subjects. The important group of the defendants was recognised to have an unsuccessful sympathetic and misconceptions of the themes tested. We have already defined that the test able to investigate and categorize students into student conception of heat concepts. Research result with four tier tests showed scientific conception 15.5%, which was likely to have misconceptions 62%, and the students were lack of knowledge the concept of 20.5%, and had an error amounted to 2%. The pre-service primary school teachers inclined to be indisposed aware among what they diagnosed and what they do not diagnose. Kind of question tested was connected by enhanced percentage of pre-service primary school teachers substantial accurate responses, established buoyancy and enhanced perception calculation. 10 truthful misconceptions were predictable. It might be determined that a Four-Tier Diagnostic Test which has previously been established be able to assess pre-service primary school teachers conception on heat concept.

Keywords: Diagnostic tests, Four-tier test, conception, Heat Concept

Topic: 3. Physics Education