K-10 students' conceptual understanding on Newton's laws: Current and future directions

Abstract

The aim of this research to obtain a profile of K-10 students' conceptual understanding on Newton's laws. In fact, not only student conceptual understanding is at a low level but also high-order thinking skills. This research is qualitative research with a case study method and using embedded, single-case design. Moreover, students' conceptual understanding is measured based on indicators explaining, comparing, inferring and interpreting. This research has already implemented to K-10 students (13 male and 21 female students) in Bandung. The results report that students' conceptual understanding for each indicator was such as explaining, comparing, inferring and interpreting is generally insufficient category. It can be concluded that students' conceptual understanding on Newton's law is still low.