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Determining High School Students’ Knowledge about Famous Physicists
Abstract
In this study, high school students’ knowledge about physicists and how they learn the knowledge were investigated. The sample of this study included 11th N=262 and 12th N=66 grade students. Of these 180 were males and 148 were females. The data were collected with survey method by using an open-ended questionnaire. The physicists that students consider themselves as having most knowledge were Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton and Galileo Galilei, respectively. In contrast, the physicists that students consider themselves as having least knowledge were Richard Feynman, Marconi and Erwin Schrödinger. Over half of the students indicated that they did not have knowledge about Robert Hooke, Stephen Hawking, Marie Curie, Alessandro Volta, Werner Heisenberg, James Clerk Maxwell and James Chadwick. Finally, it was found that students learned the most of the knowledge about physicists from their courses and books
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1 Mayıs 2016
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Yıl 1970 Cilt: 17 Sayı: 2
