The effects of gender on conceptual understandings and problem solving skills in mechanics

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dc.contributor.authorAtes, Salih
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-25T19:58:51Z
dc.date.available2024-09-25T19:58:51Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.departmentAbant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to determine the effects of gender on university students' conceptual understandings and problem solving skills in mechanics. Participants were 242 freshmen (125 females and 117 males) from the department of science education at the AIBU. Students were administered a test called Force Concept Inventory (FCI) as a pretest at the beginning of the semester. After completing the Physics I course, students were administered the FCI and Mechanics Baseline Test (MBT) as the post-test. The results of analyses revealed that there was no significant difference between male and female students' MBT mean scores, but there were significant differences between males and females' FCI mean scores in both pretest and posttest in favor of the males. Theses results show that the effects of gender on students' physics achievement depend on how physics achievement was defined operationally. The results also show that facility in solving quantitative end of the chapter problems is not an adequate criterion for conceptual understanding.en_US
dc.identifier.endpage12en_US
dc.identifier.issn1300-1337
dc.identifier.issue148en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84877642227en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ3en_US
dc.identifier.startpage3en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12491/13791
dc.identifier.volume33en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000259451400001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isotren_US
dc.publisherTurkish Education Assocen_US
dc.relation.ispartofEgitim Ve Bilim-Education And Scienceen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.snmzYK_20240925en_US
dc.subjectmechanicsen_US
dc.subjectconceptual understandingen_US
dc.subjectproblem solving skillsen_US
dc.subjectgenderen_US
dc.titleThe effects of gender on conceptual understandings and problem solving skills in mechanicsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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