This study aims to analyze senior high school students' misconceptions on the relativity topics of relative velocity, time dilation, and length contraction. The qualitative descriptive method was used in this study to explain student misconceptions from the student, documents, and observations during problem-solving. Six students take an extra course in an independent learning center to participate in this study. The student was classified as two high, middle, and low levels. The data was collected from student reports, interviews, and observations. The results show a considerable misconception of students' understanding of relativity topics. This study identifies that student misconceptions come from the learning process, resources, and teacher confirmation. Thus, there is a need for attention and remediation regarding the relativity material because it will affect the concept of students to the next level.
This study aimed to measure student numeracy ability within the context of physics on the kinetic theory of gases. This study employed a quantitative method with descriptive and parametric statistics analysis. Sixty-two sample students were measured for numeracy ability. The research instrument applied was the ten numeration questions that had been tested empirically. The research indicates that the student cognitive level positively influences numeracy ability with an effect size value of 0.682 and an Adj. R2 value of 0.676. Furthermore, gender-related analysis proves that there is no gap in the numeracy ability with an effect size value of 0.030 and Adj. R2 is 0.014. This study has implications for designing physics learning that develops numeracy ability, especially in determining learning designs that accommodate cognition level and gender.
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