A Study about Students’ Misconceptions in Force and Motion Concepts by Incorporating a Web-assisted Physics Program

The aim of this study was to incorporate a web-assisted program to normal traditional classroom instruction and study about students’ misconceptions in force and motion concepts in physics. The Web-based physics program was incorporated with the traditional lecture. Specifically, 30% of class time was allocated for using this tutorial program, and 70 % of class time was used for normal lecture. The Force Concept Inventory (FCI) was used as preand posttest. Although there were not any significant results between FCI post test scores and group memberships, and gain scores and group memberships (F 1,123 = 2.023, p> 0.05); relative to FCI pre-and post test mean difference scores, group membership (being control and treatment groups) was statistically significant at .05 (F 1,123 = 4.307 , p< 0.05).