<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article is focused on finding out pupils’ preconceptions about heat, temperature and energy. As a research tool we used a didactic test with individual types of tasks about the concepts. A total of 122 respondents aged 12 to 14 participated in the research. The research sample consisted of two groups of pupils. One group consisted of pupils attending a school assigned for talented pupils, for simplicity they are referred as talented pupils. The second group consisted of pupils who do not attend this type of school, we marked them as “general population”. The number of respondents in the sample of talented pupils was 54. The number of respondents in the sample “general population” was 68 pupils. In the research we compared ideas about concepts heat, temperature and energy of talented pupils and pupils of the “general population”. We also compared talented pupils and pupils of the “general population” in solving of conceptual and algorithmic tasks in didactic test. We found out pupils of the age from 12 to 14 have misconceptions about the concepts. We also identified the misconceptions and the most common are also mentioned in this article.</p></abstract>

This article is focused on finding out pupils’ preconceptions about heat, temperature and energy. As a research tool we used a didactic test with individual types of tasks about the concepts. A total of 122 respondents aged 12 to 14 participated in the research. The research sample consisted of two groups of pupils. One group consisted of pupils attending a school assigned for talented pupils, for simplicity they are referred as talented pupils. The second group consisted of pupils who do not attend this type of school, we marked them as “general population”. The number of respondents in the sample of talented pupils was 54. The number of respondents in the sample “general population” was 68 pupils. In the research we compared ideas about concepts heat, temperature and energy of talented pupils and pupils of the “general population”. We also compared talented pupils and pupils of the “general population” in solving of conceptual and algorithmic tasks in didactic test. We found out pupils of the age from 12 to 14 have misconceptions about the concepts. We also identified the misconceptions and the most common are also mentioned in this article.

Pupils’ Preconceptions About Heat, Temperature and Energy

Department of Didactics in Science, Psychology and Pedagogy, Faculty of Natural Sciences

Chemistry-Didactics-Ecology-Metrology

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This article is focused on finding out pupils’ preconceptions about heat, temperature and energy. As a research tool we used a didactic test with individual...

Pupils’ Preconceptions About Heat, Temperature and Energy

Published Online: Jan 29, 2021

Page range: 79 - 91

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cdem-2020-0005

Keywords
heat, temperature, energy, thermochemistry, preconceptions, misconceptions

© 2020 Lenka Kramarová et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Pupils’ Preconceptions About Heat, Temperature and Energy

Published Online: Jan 29, 2021

Page range: 79 - 91

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cdem-2020-0005

Keywordsheat, temperature, energy, thermochemistry, preconceptions, misconceptions

© 2020 Lenka Kramarová et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
heat, temperature, energy, thermochemistry, preconceptions, misconceptions