Eleventh-grade student’s conceptions about temperature and heat

Abstract

Abstract The aim of case study is to identify student misconceptions of temperature and heat in senior high school. The learning process cannot be separated from the learning difficulties while students are learning Physics. Participants in this study are eleventh-grade senior high school students (14 male’s students and 16 female students) in Bandung. The instruments used were 12 multiple-choices questions on temperature and heat, embedded by the level of confidence of students answering questions. Six misconceptions about definition of heat and temperature,thermal expantion, substance phase, category transition in the form phase of objects, principle of conservation of energy and heat transfers are 73.35%, 38.35%, 20.0%, 95.0%, 58.35% and 45.6%.