Difficulties in solving physics problems for 11th girls grade students in Riyadh

Al-Subaie, Mrs. Haya Bint Muhammad; Al-Shaya, Prof. Fahd Bin Sulaiman

doi:10.21608/mktm.2018.113565

Difficulties in solving physics problems for 11th girls grade students in Riyadh

Document Type : abstracts and research for masters and doctoral students.

Authors

¹ Lecturer in Curriculum and Science Education, Department of Education and Administration, Faculty of Education, Shaqra University

² Professor of Curriculum and Science Education, Department of Curricula and Teaching Methods, Faculty of Education - King Saud University

10.21608/mktm.2018.113565

Abstract

This research aimed to address the most important difficulties that face 11^th grade students (girls) at solving physics problems, which related to the verbal structure of the problem (readability), physics laws, basic mathematical skills, and graphics or diagrams, identify the relationship between difficulties of solving physics problem and the student achievement in mathematics, and to verify the availability of statistically differences between difficulties in solving physics problem according to variation of the teacher experiences.
Conclusion of the research revealed that the most difficult aspects that face students were basic mathematical skills with mean of (0.664), physics laws with mean of (0.632), graphics and diagrams with mean of (0.570), and finally verbal structure form of physics problem (readability) with mean of (0.406).
The results revealed an inverse correlation (-0.570) between degree of difficulty in solving physics problem and the student's achievement in mathematics. The research also indicated that students whom have teachers with experience (15 years or more) had less difficulty in solving physics problems than students whose teaches experience (5 to less than 10 years) and (10 to less than 15) years of experiences.

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