Development of remedial method for teaching electric circuits in secondary schools

Many senior secondary students experience learning difficulties in physics. This study was to reveal the kind of thinking and understanding about electric circuits of 123 senior secondary Year Two physics students in Cape Coast municipality in the Central Region of Ghana. Also it attempted to develop a remedial teaching method that would be used to remedy any identified misconceptions. An electric circuit Remedial Teaching Method was therefore developed, and its impact was assessed using a nonrandomized control pretest/post-test design. The percentages of students who had various misconceptions before and after the treatment were calculated. The findings indicated that the remedial teaching method helped to remedy most of the misconceptions they held. However, a few of the misconceptions were found to be of firm rooting and resisted changes by this teaching method. African Journal of Educational Studies in Mathematics and Sciences Vol. 1, 2001: 31-44