AMASCI

For example, students' misconceptions in work learning unit, that this study focuses, are identified as follows (Amasci, 2004): (a) failing to identify the direction in which a force is acting; (b) believing that any force times any distance is work; (c) believing that machines put out more work than we put it in: Not realizing that machines simply transform the form of the work we do; and (d) believing that the mass effects the work done under every condition.