High School Students’ User Skills Concerning Force and Motion Graphs
Öz
In this study, the aim was to examine Year 11 students’ skills of reading-interpreting and drawing graphs of force and motion and to lay bare the relationship between graph reading-interpretation and drawing graphs. Conducted in the survey model, the study was realised with the participation of 209 Year 11 students studying at Anatolian high schools in Ankara. Graph Reading and Interpretation Skills Test (GRIST) which includes 13 multiple-choice items and Graph Drawing Skills Form (GDSF) which includes 5 open-ended items were used as data collection tools. At the end of the study, it was determined that students have an intermediate level of success in reading and interpreting graphs while they have a low level of success in drawing graphs. It was concluded that students’ graph reading and interpretation skills and their graph drawing skills are related to one another.
Anahtar Kelimeler
graph reading-interpretation, graph drawing, physics education
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