Conceptual understanding of force concepts in the Ugandan context: A thread assessing performance and misconceptions

The force concept inventory (FCI) is a set of multiple-choice items that has been administered and analyzed in number regions across the world. purpose this study to evaluate students’ comprehension concepts, using thread examines analyzes most common misunderstandings among students. FCI distributed 1,440 senior four students from various Ugandan schools. ITEMAN software used assess performance. Then few are examined acquire better grasp misunderstandings. Using Gnuplot software, we displayed total scores versus their percentage for each alternative choice, which provides greater visual confirmation findings than statistical analysis. show dispersed accordance with distractors appealing items, highest percentages picking alternate option. Imitating enter physics classes preconceived about prior knowledge, viewpoints, ideas, values. As result, underlines teachers have misconceptions. Physics should interact an active learning environment conceptual change methods correct