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The Use of the Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning (POGIL) Approach to Address Form One Students’ Misconceptions About Weight and Mass

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Weight and mass are two fundamental physics concepts that students need to master prior to learning more advanced physics concepts. These two concepts have been taught to students beginning from primary level and at the lower secondary level. The teaching of these concepts was conducted using various instructional strategies. Despite concerted efforts by teachers, students still retained various misconceptions about these concepts. Among various constructivist-based learning approaches, process-oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) has been identified as an effective approach in reducing misconceptions and improving learning. In this study, POGIL was used to remediate Form 1 (equivalent to grade 7) students’ misconceptions about weight and mass. Findings of ANCOVA analysis indicate that there was significant difference between the post-test mean scores of the experimental (M exp = 3.64; SDexp = 0.49) and comparison groups (M com = 5.32; SDcom = 0.78) with the result favouring the former. Furthermore the paired samples t-test and interview responses show that POGIL has reduced the misconceptions to a certain extent.

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    Noor Nadiah Mohd Nasir

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Rosli, N., Mohd Nasir, N.N. (2017). The Use of the Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning (POGIL) Approach to Address Form One Students’ Misconceptions About Weight and Mass. In: Karpudewan, M., Md Zain, A., Chandrasegaran, A. (eds) Overcoming Students' Misconceptions in Science. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3437-4_13

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