Engineering students' concepts and conceptual difficulties in electricity and magnetism

Authors

Leo M. Baluyot ⋅ PH Mapúa Institute of Technology, Intramuros, Manila
Jillaine M. Alcala ⋅ PH Mapúa Institute of Technology, Intramuros, Manila
Nino Sebastian D. Virtusio ⋅ PH Mapúa Institute of Technology, Intramuros, Manila

Abstract

The study sought to determine engineering students' concepts as well as conceptual difficulties in electricity and magnetism. The Conceptual Survey in Electricity and Magnetism was used as the pretest and posttest. A sample of 80 students taking up Physics 214 during the 4^th quarter of SY 2002-2003 was used as respondents of the study. Upon analysis of data, it was found that although there is a significant difference between the pretest and posttest scores, students encountered difficulties in dealing with specific concepts such as electric force and Newton's Law of Interaction, force in an electric field region, magnetic force and work and electric potential among others.

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Issue

2003: Proceedings of the 21st Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Physics Congress

Article ID

SPP-2003-1F-02

Section

Physics Education

Published

2003-10-22

How to Cite

[1]

LM Baluyot, JM Alcala, and NSD Virtusio, Engineering students’ concepts and conceptual difficulties in electricity and magnetism, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 21, SPP-2003-1F-02 (2003). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2003-1F-02.