Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Online Fen Eğitimi Dergisi, cilt.10, sa.2, ss.53-77, 2025 (Hakemli Dergi)
The study aimed to examine the attitudes of 12th grade students with different demographic characteristics (gender, school type, and achievement level) towards physics lessons, the topics and concepts they found difficult in this lesson, the reasons for these difficulties, and their suggestions for solutions to these difficulties. Conducted using a descriptive qualitative research design, the data were collected using an unstructured questionnaire. Qualitative data and demographic information were collected using an unstructured ‘questionnaire to determine students' views on difficult topics and physics’ prepared by the researchers. The validity of the questionnaire was ensured by expert opinions, while its reliability was tested through a pilot application. Ninety-six high school physics students studying in a small province in Eastern Anatolia participated in the study. The collected data were analysed using content analysis. As a result of the analyses, the topics that students found challenging in their 12th-grade high school physics course and the solutions to these challenges were determined based on the students' opinions. The topic of electricity and magnetism was identified as the most challenging. The students' responses regarding why they found this topic challenging were presented under themes such as ‘difficult to understand, abstract, etc.,’ while their proposed solutions were presented under themes such as ‘lightening the curriculum, making it more concrete, etc.’