Using a Force Concept Inventory Test with Visually Impaired and Blind Students

Date

2015-01-01

Author

Bülbül, Mustafa Şahin
Garip, Belkıs
Özdemir, Ömer Faruk

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This paper reports on a study to determine whether blind students’ conceptualizations of force and motion differ from sighted students. This is particularly concerned with the question of whether the students’ visual experiences have any relation to their conceptualizations or misconceptualization about force and motion. The research was designed as a case study and the data was collected from 6 blind high school students based on conceptual physics problems related to force and motion. The analysis of the data revealed that although the blind students’ conceptions about force and motion are not radically different from those of sighted students, however, there were several conceptual problems that seem to be particular to the blind students because of their lack of visual experiences. The results revealed that visual experiences do not seem to have a significant role on the conceptualizations about force and motion.

Subject Keywords

FCI, Visually impaired and blind students, Misconception

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http://ejpe.erciyes.edu.tr/article/view/1093000179
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/77101

Journal

European Journal of Physics Education

DOI

https://doi.org/10.20308/ejpe.09583

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Department of Educational Sciences, Article

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M. Ş. Bülbül, B. Garip, and Ö. F. Özdemir, “Using a Force Concept Inventory Test with Visually Impaired and Blind Students,” European Journal of Physics Education, pp. 20–31, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://ejpe.erciyes.edu.tr/article/view/1093000179.