Pre-service teacher’s understanding levels of capacitors and instructors’ predictions about the given responses

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Ali Yildiz

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This study explores the understanding levels of pre-service teachers of the elementary school mathematics teacher education undergraduate program about capacitors that they learned in the compulsory Physics-2 course in the second year of the second term, and instructors’ predictions about the teachers’ responses. A total of 54 pre-service teachers participated in the study. The findings of the study reveal that 62.9% of the pre-service teachers did not know the function of a capacitor, 46.3% could not write any equations in connection with the capacitor and 57.4% could not explain any of the quantities in the formulas related to the capacitor. Instructors who taught Physics-2 at the undergraduate level were asked to predict the percentage rate of success of the answers the pre-service teachers gave about capacitors. The data reveal that the instructors were not sufficiently aware of pre-service teachers’ knowledge of capacitors, although they taught them Physics-2 and evaluated them.

Keywords: Capacitors, pre-service teachers, instructors, views, predictions.

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