Assessing two-dimensional collisions second-years students using PhET simulations on momentum and impulse concept

Abstract

Assessment is an important component in education that always needed. To improve the quality of education can be done by improving assessment learning quality and system. This study aims to determine the performance of students of grade X SMA N in Bandung West Java Indonesia school with 34 participants on a two-dimensional collision concept. This research is descriptive research which is conducted to examine the condition and situation that is happening, so that gives a fact-based description found in the school in other to find information factually. Problem studies that analyzed are the student’s performance after using PhET simulations on two-dimensional collision concept. The instrument utilized in this study is a written test in the form of students’ worksheets of momentum and impulse. Student worksheets test shows the average percentage on student performance in understandings concept of two-dimensional collision concept is 67.14%. These data indicated that student learning performance in good category. Learning by using virtual laboratory can provide more meaningful learning especially in physics concept that cannot be presented and observed directly in daily life.

Improving Student Learning of Impulse and Momentum in Particle Dynamics Through Computer Simulation and Animation

“…A significant amount of research has shown that many students have difficulty in understanding the concepts of impulse and momentum, as well as associated problem-solving procedures (Adimayuda et al, 2021; Rosa, Carl, Aminah, & Handhika, 2018; Wirjawan, Pratama, Pratidhina, Wijaya, Untung, & Herwinarso, 2020). In a recent study conducted by the first author of this paper (Fang, 2014), engineering undergraduates were asked to identify, from a list of 50 concepts in engineering dynamics, those concepts that were difficult for them to understand or difficult to apply in problem-solving.…”